My Documents
The lecture-performance genre was born in the 1960s with Joseph Beuys and Robert Smithson, as a way of converting a discourse into a work of art. In recent years, the format has been proliferating within theatre, dance, and the visual arts, becoming one of the variants of conceptual theatre. Artists such as Rabih Mroué, Tim Etchells and Jérôme Bel reinvented the genre, making these non-academic lectures a way of explaining and narrating investigations or experiences.
This workshop invites artists from different disciplines to develop their own lecture-performance based on a personal investigation, a radical experience, a story that is an obsession. My documents aims to dig into the genre in search of a hybrid between conceptual art, research and theatre. A space in which discourses, formats and audiences from different disciplines can converge.
My documents has a minimal format: the artist onstage with their documents. A way of giving visibility to these investigations that sometimes are lost in a nameless folder on the computer.
Within the GREC Festival of Barcelona 2023.
Lola Arias is a writer, theatre and film director and performer. She is a multi-faceted artist whose work merges characters from different spheres (war veterans, ex-communists, migrant children, etc.) in theatre, literature, music, film and visual arts projects. Her works transit along the frontier between the fictional and the real. Her plays have been translated into over seven languages and have been presented at festivals and theatres worldwide, such as the Festival d’Avignon in France; the Theater Spektakel in Zurich; the We Are Here in Dublin; the Spielart Festival in Munich; the Alkantara Festival in Lisbon and Under the Radarin New York, as well as art spaces such as the Red Cat in Los Angeles, the Walker Art Centre in Minneapolis and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago.
Last season her show Lengua madre could be seen at the Teatre Lliure in Barcelona.
Admission to the course will be based on order of arrival and CV assessment, which should be sent (with photograph included), filling in the form on the right.
Places on courses are limited. Places will be reserved once the course amount has been paid. Payment must be made within one week of receiving the corresponding acceptance email.
The dates indicated for each course or seminar may be subject to variations in exceptional circumstances. These will be notified when applicable.
For the course to take place, a minimum number of students must be registered. If this number is not reached, the course will be cancelled and the student will have the option of registering for a different course (providing that there are places available) or alternatively will receive a refund of the amount paid (100%). If a student withdraws, a refund of 75% of the registration fee will be applicable, providing that written notice is given at least 10 days before the start of the course.