Wearing an audio headset, 50 spectators let themselves be guided by an artificial voice through the streets of Avignon, for a stroll far from the tourist itineraries, from the cemetery to the Place de l'Horloge. What can a group of 50 people walking at the same pace in the urban space of Avignon during the Festival represent? Is it possible to take decisions collectively? Sheltered under their acoustic capsule, the spectators experience the personal and human relationship they have with the machine, in the way in which they project themselves into a “welcoming” voice, constantly observing themselves being the spectators of each other and casting a new glance at the city, distanced by the machine. Remote Avignon experiments with the way in which technology modifies our perception of our environment. Stefan Kaegi proposes an amazing excursion, venturing into a theatre on the edge of anticipation, which is created and undone to the rhythm of a group, which multiplies perspectives and temporalities, while creating an isolated fashion of being together. So very close to our 21st-century human consciousness. MS
Distribution
conception and direction Stefan Kaegi (Rimini Protokoll)
sound Nikolas Neecke
dramaturgy Juliane Männel, Aljoscha Begrich
Production
production Rimini Apparat
coproduction Festival d'Avignon, HAU Hebbel am Ufer (Berlin), Maria Matos Teatro Municipal (Lisbonne) and Goethe Institut Portugal, Festival Theaterformen (Hanovre-Braunschweig), Zürcher Theater Spektakel (Zurich), Kaserne Basel (Bâle) et House on Fire with the support of Programme Culture de l'Union européenne
with the supoprt of Hauptstadtkulturfonds (Berlin), Pro Helvetia Fondation suisse pour la Culture and Goethe Institut