PRAGATÁ [Performative Installation + audiowalk, 8th-18th June 2023] Director w/ Vecinas Chicoteras
Pragatá Instagram
Falso documental:
Colombian Exhibition, Prague Quadriennal. Exhibition of Countries and Regions. PQ2023
[ENG] An invitation to travel to Pragatá, a fictional city self-managed by Colombian artists, resulting from the collision between the carnavalesque audios of Bogotá, Colombia, and the physical journeys of Prague, Czech Republic. The spectator can visit an obsolete travel agency to register for an audio walk around Pragatá.
Pragatá is a fictional city, self-managed by Colombian artists and partners (The Council of Pragatá), which is a collage of different artistic fields (graphic design, sound and music, visual arts, illustration, film, props, cultural management) that have come together in PQ to represent the process of scenographic practice in the country, which is not specialised but a collective work of other than theatrical practices. The possibility of discovering distant places through digital platforms has emerged, inspiring theatre to move towards more nomadic formats. We reflect on these technologies to approach travel as a state of physical displacement and also of time, the accumulation of memories and cultural openness. We use a mix of physical (almost extinct) and digital media to create an imaginary city out of the contrasts and possible similarities of two physically distant places.
How can we create an ephemeral city through theatre? How to create a collective experience of visiting a city that does not exist? What are the tensions between the individual and the collective, between the home and the foreign, the familiar and the strange?
Through four audio walks around Prague and a travel agency office, we stage the mobility of a traveller visiting an (obsolete) office to explore the narrative of a city never visited: Pragatá. In this third fictional city, we will relate the urban and emotional qualities characteristic of two cities: Prague and Bogotá (as a place of multiple encounters: carnivalesque and chaotic at the same time; diverse and complex). Our proposal will allow us to analyse in detail how a city is made up and, therefore, the ways of life of the society that inhabits it.
Artistic Team:
Production and Creative Directors Vecinas Chicoteras (Susana Botero, Laura Cuervo and Manuela Valdiri). Original idea Susana Botero, Laura Cuervo and Philippe Legler. Graphic Designer Nicolás Galeano (Norte). Visual Identity Tangrama. Audiovisual Production Juan Cuervo, Gabriel Leaño (Monte). Illustrators Fidel Yordan Castro, Red White Monkey, Daniela Ilustra and Ed Camacho. Soundscapes recording Adriana García, Laura Valentina Mora, Maria José de los Angeles Rodriguez, Alejandra Guerra. Sound Post-production Andrés Silva (La Tina). Photo Documentation Santiago Iregui. Merch Kupa. Costumes making Marcela Sanchez (Doctor Spin). Carpenter Juan Carlos Otálora. Printers Acierto Colombia. Collages: “The Colors of Bogotá” Professor: Claudia Gómez Mejía. Partners PopUp Art, FaCrea, PQ2023, ASOCOL. Local support Antonia Arias, Magnolia Fajardo, Juliana Castaño, Jeries Abujaber, Daniela Pineda, Clara Maria Gonzalez, Mónica Bastos (Red ARDE). Tech Consulting Julián Daza García Mayorca, Rafael Vega. Buyer Diego Pirabán.
Special thanks to The Citizens of Pragatá (monetary contributors), Melanie May, Mabel V. Rodriguez (consul ad_honorem Prague) and Lovable Humans z.c
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Other activities:
[ENG] An invitation to travel to Pragatá, a fictional city self-managed by Colombian artists, resulting from the collision between the carnavalesque audios of Bogotá, Colombia, and the physical journeys of Prague, Czech Republic. The spectator can visit an obsolete travel agency to register for an audio walk around Pragatá.
Pragatá is a fictional city, self-managed by Colombian artists and partners (The Council of Pragatá), which is a collage of different artistic fields (graphic design, sound and music, visual arts, illustration, film, props, cultural management) that have come together in PQ to represent the process of scenographic practice in the country, which is not specialised but a collective work of other than theatrical practices. The possibility of discovering distant places through digital platforms has emerged, inspiring theatre to move towards more nomadic formats. We reflect on these technologies to approach travel as a state of physical displacement and also of time, the accumulation of memories and cultural openness. We use a mix of physical (almost extinct) and digital media to create an imaginary city out of the contrasts and possible similarities of two physically distant places.
How can we create an ephemeral city through theatre? How to create a collective experience of visiting a city that does not exist? What are the tensions between the individual and the collective, between the home and the foreign, the familiar and the strange?
Through four audio walks around Prague and a travel agency office, we stage the mobility of a traveller visiting an (obsolete) office to explore the narrative of a city never visited: Pragatá. In this third fictional city, we will relate the urban and emotional qualities characteristic of two cities: Prague and Bogotá (as a place of multiple encounters: carnivalesque and chaotic at the same time; diverse and complex). Our proposal will allow us to analyse in detail how a city is made up and, therefore, the ways of life of the society that inhabits it.
Artistic Team:
Production and Creative Directors Vecinas Chicoteras (Susana Botero, Laura Cuervo and Manuela Valdiri). Original idea Susana Botero, Laura Cuervo and Philippe Legler. Graphic Designer Nicolás Galeano (Norte). Visual Identity Tangrama. Audiovisual Production Juan Cuervo, Gabriel Leaño (Monte). Illustrators Fidel Yordan Castro, Red White Monkey, Daniela Ilustra and Ed Camacho. Soundscapes recording Adriana García, Laura Valentina Mora, Maria José de los Angeles Rodriguez, Alejandra Guerra. Sound Post-production Andrés Silva (La Tina). Photo Documentation Santiago Iregui. Merch Kupa. Costumes making Marcela Sanchez (Doctor Spin). Carpenter Juan Carlos Otálora. Printers Acierto Colombia. Collages: “The Colors of Bogotá” Professor: Claudia Gómez Mejía. Partners PopUp Art, FaCrea, PQ2023, ASOCOL. Local support Antonia Arias, Magnolia Fajardo, Juliana Castaño, Jeries Abujaber, Daniela Pineda, Clara Maria Gonzalez, Mónica Bastos (Red ARDE). Tech Consulting Julián Daza García Mayorca, Rafael Vega. Buyer Diego Pirabán.
Special thanks to The Citizens of Pragatá (monetary contributors), Melanie May, Mabel V. Rodriguez (consul ad_honorem Prague) and Lovable Humans z.c
Press:
- 08.06.2023. Martina Kutková, Radio Prague International. Latinoamérica invita a escuchar y morir en la Cuadrienal de Praga.
- Mayo 21, Entrevista Caracol Radio
- La Nota Económica, Pragatá Colombia en la Cuadrienal de Praga 2023
- Vanguardia. La santandereana Susana Botero presenta “Pragatá”: La ciudad ficción que une a Praga y Bogotá.
- Nota en Universidad del Rosario Pragatá: Colombia en la Cuadrienal de Praga 2023
- Cinco minutos con Margarita Vidal: Pragatá
- Nota en Kiosko Teatral. Colombia en la Cuadrienal de Escenografía y Performance de Praga
- Entrevista en Tras Bambalinas, Radio Nacional
Other activities:
- 24.10.2023 - 01.11.2023. Exposición RUINAS DE PRAGATÁ, Facrea, U. Rosario, Bogotá
- 01.11.2023. ENCUENTRO ENTRE NACIONES con Lucas Torres. Escuela Experimental de Arte, Programa ArtBo, Cámara de Comercio de Bogotá.