[spectre] CALIN DAN DIRECTING THEATRICAL EVENT

[Geert Lovink]

> Subject: CALIN DAN IS DIRECTING AN EXPERIMENTAL THEATRICAL EVENT 
> CASTING INMATES FROM COLIBASI ROMANIAN PENITENTIARY
>
> Odeon Theater
> (Bucharest, Calea Victoriei 40-42)
>  
> Monday, May 28, at 7:00 p.m.,
>
> hosts the performance
>  
> CA(R)NE – THIS IS OUR CITY
>  
> an experimental theatrical event by Călin Dan,
> casting inmates from the Colibasi Penitentiary in Romania.
>
> The creative team involves:
> Călin Dan (text & stage direction)
> Matze (sound design & DJ)
> Cosmin Ardeleanu (set design & costumes)
>  Vali Chincisan (computer animation & VJ)
> Suzana Dan (visual campaign & special props)
> Victor Velculescu & Marius Iacob (video).
>  
> Project initiated and supported by:
> Atelier Rijksbouwmeester, the Hague, realized in the frame of the 
> Prison Star Program,
> implemented in the Colibasi Penitentiary with the support of the Dutch 
> Ministries of Foreign
> Affairs and of Justice as well as of the Netherlands Royal Embassy in 
> Bucharest.
>  
> Project organized by:
> Hand Milked Visions Foundation, Amsterdam;
> the International Center for Contemporary Art, Bucharest;
> Odeon Theater, Bucharest.
>  
> Project co-finaced by:
> Swiss Cultural Programme Romania,   Pro Helvetia / SDC;
> the Administration of the National Cultural Fund, the Ministry of 
> Culture & Cults, Romania.
>  
> The play brings forward the stray dogs coming from the demolition 
> sites that defaced Bucharest in the ‘70s & ‘80s, in order to make room 
> for the building of Ceausescu’s Palace. While waiting euthanasia, the 
> characters talk about the relation between masters and servants, 
> dictators and masses, about architecture, religion, etc. The text 
> blends continuously the existential debate and the mythological 
> prospective, with abrupt changes of location between a dogs’ prison 
> and the court of a fictional prince. The theatrical performance is 
> backed by an original sound composition performed live as well as by 
> videos and animations mixed in real time.
>  
> Entrance free.