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Language:
In Spanish.
Synopsis: Mapa Teatro's installation project, 'Re-corridos,' memorializes the demolition of an urban neighborhood known as Santa Inés-El
Cartucho in Bogotá, Colombia. Staged in a rustic, colonial home typical of the neighborhood, the installation was visited
by more than 6,000 spectators during the last phase of demolition in the first half of December 2003. Based on testimony of
former inhabitants, Mapa Teatro attempts to reconstruct traces of life in found objects, photographs, sound and audio-visual
display as a refuge for these fragments of memory.The installation consists of 12 physical spaces that correspond to niches of memory of El Cartucho: 'El Testigo' (object);
'El campanero' (interactive sound); 'El escombro' (video sound installation); 'Los pasos' (photographic projection); 'El Carro
/ La báscula' (interactive installation); 'La botella' (interactive object); 'La casa' (video projection); 'La habitación'
(video-sound installation); 'La piel' (sound installation); 'El fósforo' (photo installation); 'El resto' (installation);
'La voz' (sound installation). One of the foremost artistic companies in Colombia, Mapa Teatro (www.mapateatro.org) has been
producing theater, performance and art installation projects since 1984. Founders and directors, Rolf and Heidi Abderhalden
have created a wide ranging repertoire of theater, opera, mixed-media performance, and site-specific installation.Their work proposes richly textured visual metaphors in which they consider often complex psychological, social and political
relationships. Committed to experimentation, and less interested in the actor as an 'agent of fiction,' they describe their
project as 'a laboratory of social imagination,' that offers a space for presenting community issues and human concerns in
media and performance. This combination of real-life situations and sites along with highly stylized aesthetic staging produces
a tension between real action and (re)presentation. Mapa Teatro draws from live events captured on video such as the demolition
of a neighborhood in Bogotá, ritual practice, and texts that explore the relationship of postmodern subjects, myth and metaphor.
Mapa Teatro has performed by commissions, festivals and collaborative projects world-wide.
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Copyright Holder: Mapa Teatro Laboratorio de Artistas
Contact: Rolf and Heidi Abderhalden
Address:
Rolf and Heidi Abderhalden
Carrera 7 Nº 23-08, Bogotá, Colombia
Phone(Business): +57-1-284-4899
Phone(Fax): +57-1-599-6795
Email: info@mapateatro.org
Website: http://www.mapateatro.org
Copyright Holder: Mapa Teatro Laboratorio de Artistas
Contact: Rolf and Heidi Abderhalden
Address:
Rolf and Heidi Abderhalden
Carrera 7 Nº 23-08, Bogotá, Colombia
Phone(Business): +57-1-284-4899
Phone(Fax): +57-1-599-6795
Email: info@mapateatro.org
Website: http://www.mapateatro.org
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