Richard Sennett and Xavier Albertí, Performing the City
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Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (CCCB) Carrer de Montalegre 5, 08001 Barcelona

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In his book, The Performer: Art, Life, Politics (2024, in Catalan, L’intèrpret. Art, vida i política), Richard Sennett, inspired by Shakespeare’s famous idea that the world is a stage, explores the human impulse to perform. His understanding of this phenomenon goes beyond theater and the performing arts to permeate all aspects of social life, covering religious rituals, political settings, and urban agoras, as well as the everyday actions we engage in as part of social interaction.
In his conversation with theater director Xavier Albertí, Sennett starts from his experience as a professional cellist to probe the cultural and political history of human interactions and analyses the complex, ambiguous nature of the art of performance. Staged expressions can be dangerous, he says, but they can also dignify political and collective life.
Event will be held in English with simultaneous translation from English to Catalan.
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