El Caldo ist spanisch.
Man spricht es so aus: El Kaldo.
Das bedeutet auf Deutsch: Die Brühe.
El Caldo ist ein Festival.
Künstlerinnen aus verschiedenen Ländern zeigen ihre Arbeiten.
Das Festival zeigt, dass uns etwas verbindet.
Dieses Jahr geht es beim Festival El Caldo Turbio um Geräusche.
Die Künstlerinnen arbeiten mit Schreien, Trommeln und elektrischem Summen.
Das ist wie eine Reise ins Unbewusste, bei der man Neues entdeckt.
Der Raum im Theater wird lebendig.
Es wird auch zusammen gekocht.
Jeder kann kommen und das ganze Festival erleben
oder nur einen Teil davon.
Der Austausch zwischen den Veranstaltungen ist wichtig.
In 2024 Gessnerallee welcomes the 4th iteration of El Caldo, a hybrid laboratory and festival space conceived and facilitated by co-curator Catalina Insignares. It will gather a group of international and local artists to spend time and study together with the public through their practices, in order to develop a work or proposal that is still searching for its form.
An ongoing concern of El Caldo has been to make visible and audible that which allows us to be connected while being separated. From one side of the ocean to another, or from the bottom of the seas, people have known how to maintain communication and contact through waves, spores, winds, telepathies… The dead have been part of that communication network, informing people of the danger behind their back, of the abyss to come; they have taught us that time is not linear, that the end is not coming, but has already happened.
In this iteration, titled El Caldo Turbio, these frequencies of connection are getting thicker. In previous years, we have been training how to tune in to the most subtle frequencies, now it is time to listen from within ferocious noise, to not remove ourselves from violent murky frequencies, but to linger there and listen harder. Water is a special transmitter of sound waves: in it, space collapses and vibration is tangible through the pores. Water will be the omnipresent conductor across the different proposals, with its capacity to connect and make memories present.
The artists invited this year will be working on varieties of screams, drums and electric buzzing that crawl around the unconscious. Together with the audience they will spend four days together going from one proposal to the other, letting the works and the echoes spill into one another. The theatre space becomes a place to inhabit, where cooking together is as important as helping construct a song.
Everyone is welcome to spend the whole four days in the space, or just one. From one workshop to one performance, we know the most nutritious exchanges happen in the in-betweens, so plan to come with time to linger and be in the space with us in between planned events.
“For we were in a strange place, a deep place. Sound travels fast and far in the deep places, and the silence there is perfect, letting the least noise be heard for hundreds of miles. And these were not small noises. The lights were tiny, but the sounds were vast: not loud, but very large. Often, they were below the range of hearing, long slow vibrations rather than sounds. The first we heard seemed to us to rise up through the currents from beneath us immense groans, sighs felt along the bone, a rumbling, a deep uneasy whispering. Later, certain sounds came down to us from above, or borne along the endless levels of the darkness, and these were stranger yet, for they were music. A huge, calling, yearning music from far away in the darkness, calling not to us. Where are you? I am here. Not to us. They were the voices of the great souls, the great lives, the lonely ones, the voyagers. Calling. Not often answered. Where are you? Where have you gone?” – Ursula K. Le Guin, “The New Atlantis”
Invited artists: Camilo Mejía, Carolina Mendonça and Catalina Insignares, Leticia Skrycky, Loucka Fiagan, Margaretha Jüngling, Naghmeh Manavi, Nina Santes, Panamby, Simone Truong
Thursday, 14.03.2024 15:00-17:00
15:00-17:00 Nina Santes – workshop
Friday, 15.03.2024 15:00-23:00
15:00-17:00 Nina Santes - Workshop
18:00-19:00 Dinner
19:30-20:30 Leticia Skrycky - Listening Session
21:00-22:00 Carolina Mendonça and Catalina Insignares - Performance
22:00-23:00 Drinks
Saturday, 16.03.2024 15:00-24:00
15:00-17:00 Nina Santes - Workshop
18:00-19:00 Dinner
19:30-20:30 Loucka Fiagan - Listening Session
21:00-22:30 Camilo Mejía - Dance Performance
22:30-24:00 Drinks
Sunday, 17.03.2024 18:00-22:30
18:00-19:00 Dinner
19:30-20:30 Naghmeh Manavi - Reading
21:00-22:30 Panamby - Listening Session
For the workshops by Nina Santes and for the performance by Carolina Mendonça and Catalina Insignares, please register in addition to the ticket purchase: produktion@gessnerallee.ch.
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