The project presents performances addressing the search for one’s own space, personal positioning, and the integration and demarcation in today’s constantly changing society. Systems of social order are deconstructed, and group dynamics and the performativity of everyday life targeted; it is a desire for self-empowerment, for a means of confronting expectations, and the fragmentation of predominant mechanisms. The observer becomes the participant, actor, and subject of (t)his “space”.
AC/E supports the participation of Claudia Pagès with the performance 'Act(s) on the table / Actos sobre la mesa'. A table: what was once a frustrated work wants to become a co-working table but ends up being a pretext for an (im)possible love story among different characters who are busy seeking/choosing the potential of the “we” either as a disinterested common or as an advantageous new business model.
The theater piece explores four characters:
A narrator, who starts explaining the context (a co-working place in a gentrified area), and introduces the characters each time they appear.
"The everything is movement", a female character who personifies a dancer/choreographer and reads a sort of manifesto about killing choreographies (killing organized movements) and flexibility; then, she dances on the top of the table at the rhythm of a pen.
"The Potential Seeker", a character who writes poems on the invoices and, with short thoughts wonders about what will happen if she stays longer in the space.
"The We" who is not really a character, but a song to be singed together (with a guitar-folky accompaniment), they sing part of the text "Is it Love" by Brian Kuan Wood, published at e-flux some years ago.
While the setting is a labor situation, economizing every movement and working process, a core element of the piece a real co-working based on the artist’s network. The performers are not professional actors but rather “helpers”, how the Claudia Pagés calls them, which can be friends, colleagues or family members which will receive only an allowance for their expenses.
AC/E supports the participation of Claudia Pagès with the performance 'Act(s) on the table / Actos sobre la mesa'. A table: what was once a frustrated work wants to become a co-working table but ends up being a pretext for an (im)possible love story among different characters who are busy seeking/choosing the potential of the “we” either as a disinterested common or as an advantageous new business model.
The theater piece explores four characters:
A narrator, who starts explaining the context (a co-working place in a gentrified area), and introduces the characters each time they appear.
"The everything is movement", a female character who personifies a dancer/choreographer and reads a sort of manifesto about killing choreographies (killing organized movements) and flexibility; then, she dances on the top of the table at the rhythm of a pen.
"The Potential Seeker", a character who writes poems on the invoices and, with short thoughts wonders about what will happen if she stays longer in the space.
"The We" who is not really a character, but a song to be singed together (with a guitar-folky accompaniment), they sing part of the text "Is it Love" by Brian Kuan Wood, published at e-flux some years ago.
While the setting is a labor situation, economizing every movement and working process, a core element of the piece a real co-working based on the artist’s network. The performers are not professional actors but rather “helpers”, how the Claudia Pagés calls them, which can be friends, colleagues or family members which will receive only an allowance for their expenses.