local worlds

Local Worlds presents PERFORMANCE by PSYCHOLOGICAL ART CIRCUS

THE TRAIL PERFORMANCE BY PSYCHOLOGICAL ART CIRCUS
at Centro Cultural de Lagos
June 26th thursday at 22h Free entrance

CONVERSATION with PSYCHOLOGICAL ART CIRCUS
at Centro Cultural de Lagos
June 27th friday at 22h Free entrance (in english)

The transversal programme of LOCAL WORLDS Project carries on with PSYCHOLOGICAL ART CIRCUS’s performance, entitled The TRAIL, at 22h in the Patio of the Centro Cultural de Lagos (Cultural Centre of Lagos). Followed by a conversation with the company friday the 27th at 22h.

THE TRAIL, June 26th thursday at 22h
PAC’s participation in “Mundos Locais” forms part of “The Trail” (2006-2008), a body of work inspired by the story behind and content of a technique for healing the self and others as revealed to and presented by Olive Pixley in the early 20th century. An half-hour core double act combining aerial skills and corporeal mime set to an original soundtrack has been developed through extensive engagements in London. When circumstances have allowed, as many as nine further performers have been drafted in to embody larger ensemble scenes. In April 2008, as artists-in-residence of the Roundhouse in Camden, PAC began practical experiments in “that willing suspension of disbelief for the moment which constitutes poetic faith”. Where this aesthetic theory as articulated by Coleridge was made in reference to the reader’s relationship to the art, for PAC it has become the willingness of its own artists to refrain from their natural incredulity at the premises of a non-fictional dramaturgy where the facts presented are fantastic, seemingly improbable and extremely confrontational. Whilst theatrical suspension of disbelief is more usually an unspoken quid pro quo between the observer and the observed, here the performers are explicitly agreeing to attempt a provisional withholding of their own mechanical responses and stereotypical judgements in exchange for the creative possibilities of the unknown.
”The Trail” is being created by Jack Opaean (England), Lina Jungergård (Sweden) and Andrea Meneses Guerrero (Colombia)

THE CONVERSATION, june 27th friday at 22h

Talk by the company director – Opaen – about the method of theoretical sampling from modernist thought, European history, arts of the body (mime, corporeal expression, aereal), fused with circus methodological approach as a technology of mobilism and allegory of cultural nomadism. After the two years’ extreme parody of the Anna O. itinerary , the company became focused upon the creation of visual narrative coloured by the Spiritual journey of Olive P.

About the Psychological Art Circus
The birth of Psychological Art Circus occurred on 22nd March 2004 in Area 10 Project Space, a former woodyard in Peckham, South East London. There began a process of precisely two years’ duration, utilizing as thematic device the “Private Theatre” case history of “Anna O”. An interdisciplinary troupe drawn from eight countries across three continents used elements of aerial, mime, voice and projection, fire, shadow, and object manipulation to create an evolving repertoire of acts variously choreographed for a range of sites, situations and contexts in England, France and Croatia. This debut itinerary included the 2004 Jeunes Talents Cirque at L’Academie Fratellini in Paris; the 2005 FAKI alternative theatre festival in Zagreb; and the 2006 launch of exhibition KISSS in London’s Whitechapel Gallery. PAC gained a local reputation for its unauthorized performance occupations including those of Arnold Circus, an East London bandstand built upon plague burial ground and in a derelict South London public house in St George’s Circus. The work led to Company incorporation, subsequent Arts Council England funding and, in April 2006, to a first South American invitation where a core troupe successfully played to audiences of over 2000 in Bogotá for the 4th Latin Convention of Circus.