CAMP EUROPE

 Marilli Mastrantoni / ENTROPIA Ensemble launches the International Project CAMP EUROPE, which explores the refugee and migratory crisis from a different perspective, usually excluded from the public discourse: it attempts to investigate the function of concentration camps in historically crucial periods and their relationship with the current bio-political agenda. Through a comparative study of historical examples, we will discuss periods of refugee flows and displacements in the 20th century Europe, as well as those power structures that actively separate "political beings" (i.e. citizens) from "bare life" (bodies), and how the political body transforms into a criminal one, by subjecting the population to a state of permanent suspicion and surveillance.

 We’ll try to address issues regarding the body, its significance and attitudes in conditions of incarceration, and analyze also the "state of exception", whose camp is its obvious and par excellence place of enforcement, in an effort to awaken collective memory and to stimulate its subsequent critical projection into the present.

 The Project develops through research and residencies in Berlin, Budapest, Izmir and Athens in collaboration with local institutions and artists, and will climax in May 2018 with the premiere in Athens of the homonymous interdisciplinary transnational performance.

 A successful 1st Residency and Performance in Berlin, 18-31 January 2018, hosted by ufaFabrik Berlin - Internationales Kulturcentrum (www.ufafabrik.de) in collaboration with the Group Theater.Macht.Staat (www.theaterstaat.com), is over!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j21-KnDWWg4

 2nd Residency in Budapest, 13-24 February 2018, in collaboration with RS9 Theatre (www.rs9.hu), where our research will be focused on the local context. On Saturday 24th February at 3 pm our Residency’s outcome will be presented to the local public as a work-in-progress.

 Really excited to be residents and perform at the historic centre of Budapest in the old Jewish quarter!