TRANS-IT: Zed Zanzu

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Image courtesy of Grec Festival de Barcelona.

This interactive performance draws on the panoptic structure of La Model prison and explores ideas of transition through suggestion, accompaniment, consent and care. 

The creation offers an immersive experience in which the audience may become actively involved in the unfolding events. Through guided and negotiated invitations, it shifts the relationship between observer and observed, exposure and control, and caregivers and care receivers. In doing so, it creates a shared space where connections emerge in real time.

The work is shaped by reflections on the changing nature of the gaze of punishment: from the public spectacle of the exposed body in the square to more invisible, internalised systems of control, such as those embodied by the prison, and especially the panopticon, designed to create the constant sense of being watched.

Within this loaded context, hypnosis is proposed as a practice of accompaniment and suggestion, and as an invitation to shared imaginative journeys and states of transition. Accompanying, suggesting, exposing oneself, surrendering, and protecting oneself are explored as forms of (self-)care.

Performance will be in English, Spanish and Catalan.

Sounds of the City: Summer Music Festivals

What are your plans for summer? If you’re staying in the city, you won’t be alone. Barcelona is becoming a go-to destination for festival lovers, given Catalunya’s covetable combination of culture, great weather and an increasingly diverse concert circuit. So if you’re looking to expand your horizons while staying put this season, check out our article Sounds of the City: Summer Music Festivals for a summary of the summer music events taking place in Barcelona, from big-name gatherings to boutique takeovers.

For more music events check our online events calendar.