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International Festival The Theatre is a place of stories, characters and illusion. A configuration where life and adventure is performed as if. It is also a frame for different social performances, particular interaction and communication. The theatre is a situation where we meet, share and exchange opinions and emotions, language and experience. This situation, in all its diversity, carries a potential politics, a promise of a different future. Aesthetics can be paired into representation and experience. Representation is dominant in aesthetic discourses as it is contingent to capitalist economies. International Festival The Theatre brings forth aesthetic experience, underlining its differentiating potentiality in which each individual viewer participates with his or her engagement. International Festival The Theatre is a project where each implicated individual or group is activated to take a decision, to participate in an ongoing process that is only being completed in and through this particular activation. The Theatre foyer The Project International Festival The Theatre is an autonomous collaborative project engaging approximately 50 individuals and groups to develop, design and realize a fully functioning theatre including all common features: a stage with auditorium, a theatre machinery, bar, foyer, dressing room, offices, rehearsal space etc. The project is realized on the basis of a larger scale performance budget and an open source like decision-making process that stimulates innovation and criticality.
The project is first of all not a temporary or mobile theatre structure but as the project in its entirety is conceived as a performance the project will tour to different cities and context and thus function as an ongoing platform for discourse production. The Theatre is the assembly of all activities and productions of relations in and related to the structure. The Theatre passes over the opportunity to program, curate and fill the structure to the different festivals The Theatre is an offer to any individual, group or organization to change perspectives and our understanding of theatre as an assemblage of production. The Theatre is open to any client and considers a diversity of contexts and opportunities, in the cultural sector but is also open to educational and commercial engagements. Primary issues of the project concerns distribution, accountability and authorization within the field. The Theatre opens for alternative modes of territorialization as it operates through different organizational, temporal and economical protocols. The Theatre is a blue sky project that will use three years to, in situ, research alternative visions of organization, program, economy and distribution.
The Theatre is a temporary project financed and maintained largely by cultural support and can therefore engage in radical risk economies. The Theatre is a knowledge intensive project that possesses specific and expansive expertise. The Theatre is developed and realized by International Festival in collaboration with approximately 50 individuals and groups engaged in performance, dance, architecture, theory, education, soft-ware production, marketing, activism etc based in 11 European countries. The process includes a series of conferences set up in different local context in Europe. In order to enforce critical engagement alternative modes of production has been utilized where architecture is rehearsed and performance can consist of protocols for the building process. It is an attempt to activate, involve and empower a large group of participants in as many sections of the process as possible. The Theatre as process has become a heterogeneous platform for discourse production and informal net-working, resulting in new autonomous collaborations. After the research and development phases of the project the collaborators are transformed into builders taking part of hands on work from the large structure to e.g. interior design. When The Theatre is open to the public the group transforms into hosts and maintainers thus performing The Theatre. International Festival The Theatre has functioned as an educational platform for students in Stockholm, Graz and Zagreb where courses at the respective architecture collages have been based on The Theatre and its program. International Festival The Theatre is an autonomous project commissioned by Steirischer Herbst in Graz (Austria). The project is financed through regional and national funding mainly from Sweden, next to support from corporate economies. The project aims to engage in long-term reciprocal financial relations emphasizing research and knowledge exchange, as well as in short-term engagements with local entrepreneurs in order to differentiate models for financial distribution and responsibility. Program Free standing building structure without foundation. Total structure: 26 m x 17.20 m x 6.80 m Stage: 12 x 12 m + wings (with fixed grid). Auditorium: 150 persons seated in a conventional auditorium on cushions Foyer for 150 persons Equiped with (optional): bar, kitchen, toilets, technical storage, office-spaces Possibilities for rehearsal space, lecture space depending on requirements International Festival tour as a dynamic structure partially variable in size and equipment. Other parts are assembled locally. Depending on configuration need for water supply, otherwise energy supply in accord to conventional needs for a theatre structure. Fully technically equipped except for theatre technology (light and sound). Build up with local team (10-12 professional technicians) in collaboration with International Festival team approximately 5 days. Build down with local team (10-12 professional technicians) in collaboration with International Festival team approximately 3 days.
Economy International Festival The Theatre are economically function as a performance. Approximated economical initial input from local host 22.500€ covering transportation of physical structure including fee for International Festival. Excluding travels, accommodation, per diem for International Festival team. Running costs, catering, bar, ticket-office etc. cared for by local host, possibly in collaboration with International Festival. Team International Festival is an open collaborative production platform between architecture and performance initiated by Tor Lindstrand (Stockholm) and Mårten Spångberg (Berlin). Since 2004 International Festival has created knowledge intensive projects that aim to empower and activate viewers and participants. International Festival engages in trans-disciplinary processes and in context-specific production, spanning from a perfume to a public square, events and educational projects. international-festival.org The Theatre engages among others the following individuals and groups: Jonathan Allen (GB), BadCo / Ivana Ivkovic, Tomislaw Medak, Nikolina Pristas, Sergej Pristas (HR), Alice Chauchat (D/F), Marcus Doverud (S), Max Frey (A), Moa Hanssen (S), Yngve Holen (N/D), Mario Höber (A), INPEX (S), Kein.org (D), Kira Kirsch (A/D), Sonia Leimer (A), Xavier Le Roy (D/F), Tor Lindstrand (S), Annette Lundebye (N/GB), Florian Malzacher (A/D), Liz McAlpine (GB), Ulrike Melzwig (D), Yves Mettler (CH), Martin Miljard (CH), Moderna Dansteatern (S), Marlie Mul (NL), Platforma 9.81 / Damir Blasevic, Marco Sancanin (HR), School of Architecture Royal Institute of Technology Stockholm (S), Christine Sbaschnigg (A), Hermann Schapek (A), Support Structure (GB) / Celine Condorelli (I), Mårten Spångberg (S), Tensta Konsthall (S), Testbedstudio / Anders Johansson, Erik Wingquist (S), UglyCute (S), Unfriendly Takeover (D), WELD (S), Janica Wiklander (S), Josefine Wikström (S), Siegmar Zacharias (D/RO) International Festival The Theatre is supported by: The Swedish Arts Grants Committee, The Swedish National Council for Cultural Affairs and Steirischer Herbst International Festival is a non-profit association based in Stockholm, Sweden. |
International Festival The Theatre is an architecture and a performance, a show and a building, a situation where ways of being together become tangible. International Festival The Theatre is a different performance, a different architecture that we construct together through our engagement and desire to change the ways things change.
