Sâlmon. Barcelona Performing Arts Festival
Time and space are not only essential notions for choreography and other artistic disciplines, but also implicitly shape our reality. In this edition the Sâlmon festival proposes reviewing dominant ways of understanding space and time in order to highlight the political dimension of these infrastructural aspects that often go unnoticed because they have been naturalized.
On the one hand, a temporality is put forward where past, present and future are constantly intertwined and seem to coexist simultaneously. Some pieces address current events that urgently demand our attention. Other presentations strategically project themselves into the future through fiction and speculation. Finally, other proposals revisit historical stagings such as those of Fabià Puigserver, a multifaceted artist who conceived interpretation, costumes and scenography at the same time, creating spaces of indeterminacy between theater and visual arts.
On the other hand, in relation to space, some works propose fleeing from the point of view as a convention for witnessing performance and make perspective explode in a literal or metaphorical way. Other works offer alternatives to the pre-eminence of vision by emphasizing the importance of senses such as touch and hearing, blurring the boundaries between agents of the world that are in fact much more interconnected than they appear at first sight.
The Sâlmon festival invites you to rehearse other ways of inhabiting time and space in order to reconsider about, above, across, after, against, along, among, around, as, at, before, behind, below, beneath, beside, between, beyond, by, despite, down, during, except, for, from, in, inside, into, like, meanwhile, near, of, off, on, onto, opposite, out, outside, over, past, round, since, than, through, to, towards, under, underneath, until, up, upon, via, with, within, without things as we know them.
