The permanent lab
We started working together in March 2016, taking media manipulation as the starting point. After months of exploration and rehearsals, going deep into this subject, we ended up approaching work from two complementary prisms: on one hand, the theoretica.
THE PERMANENT LAB
We started working together in March 2016, taking media manipulation as the starting point. After months of exploration and rehearsals, going deep into this subject, we ended up approaching work from two complementary prisms: on one hand, the theoretical insight based on news, chronicles, essays related to new sociological phenomena, articles and opinions; and on the other hand, the development of scenic-related proposals. From these two places of thought and action, the question raised was to do with personal responsibility and the importance that each of us has when it comes to consuming and creating information. In this line of work we discovered that neurosis and anxiety were common places in rehearsals and improvisation exercises. And that is how, naturally, FOMO (“Fear of missing out”) emerged as the first thematic line that has guided our research through the initial stage of the laboratory. For us, the main point is to strengthen ourselves as a team and find work dynamics amongst the different areas (scenography, technical creation, sound space, video, costumes, interpretation, dance, dramaturgy, direction) that make a real dialogue possible. This involves asking questions together and finding the answers that will allow us to continue our research. Therefore, we are open to find, not only new thematic lines to deepen into, but also new modes of action and production to experiment.
About the dramaturgy
The ‘mud’ which drama emerges from, and in which it continues sinking week after week, has been particularly fertile for reflection, but especially for honest reflection, the one that causes surprise because it hurts, and that hurts because it represents us.
ABOUT THE DRAMATURGY
The ‘mud’ which FOMO emerges from, and in which it continues sinking week after week, has been particularly fertile for reflection, but especially for honest reflection, the one that causes surprise because it hurts, and that hurts because it represents us. The fact that the members of this group have worked with no time pressure and obtaining no concrete results – only for the need and pleasure of looking, looking within – has endowed with depth and strength this act of pure pursuit. The result shows dramaturgies that wound in their immediacy and lucidity, which we do not consider so much an ‘intervention’ from outside but a game from within, a new search for correspondences between the different scenes and contexts imagined by the interpreters, a rewriting that can provide other reliefs while enhancing the freshness of the original find. The goal will be no more than to ask what is that of the exclusion and the uprooting of oneself, what is that of being alive in such fast and challenging times as the present.
The (non) place
The collective FANGO is not rooted in a permanent space. FANGO is a generator of ideas, pieces, stage proposals, videos and actions that can be developed in different places or non-places. If the spaces themselves already.
THE (NON) PLACE
The collective FANGO is not rooted in a permanent space. FANGO is a generator of ideas, pieces, stage proposals, videos and actions that can be developed in different places or non-places. If the spaces themselves already have an identity, that is, a function and a meaning, we want to be able to inhabit and re-discover them so that they also reveal us to ourselves. We want our proposals to enter into dialogue with different spaces to find out how they are transformed. A scenic space, an art gallery, a specific site a streaming, a public space or simply any place, are subject to be intervened by FANGO.