Silver Lion 2015
Venice Biennale
Silver Lion 2015
Venice Biennale
On August 3, 2015, Agrupación Señor Serrano’s work was awarded the Silver Lion for innovation in theatre of the Venice Biennale in a ceremony held at the Palazzo Ca’ Giustinian. We are very proud of the prize and we believe that it is not entirely undeserved. However, not everyone thinks the same. It is fair to bring here the voices of dissent:
“The only real disappointment of the festival was Agrupación Señor Serrano to which this year was awarded the Silver Lion for innovation in theatre (we can’t see the possible reason for that): smart asses and malicious they presented a show in which the chase of American Indians, the hunting of Moby Dick and the capture of Bin Laden were put on the same plane. On stage, some platforms, a series of scale models of Bin Laden’s house in Pakistan, plastic action figures and miniature planes: and a camera amplifying all this on a large screen, as we have already seen in many shows. Where was all this going? I don’t know, from an ideological and political point of view, unless they pretended to trivially show the interweaving of fiction and reality. How original!”
Anna Bandettini, La Repubblica (16/08/2015).
Premiered on 07.07.2007 at GREC Festival de Barcelona.
Autopsy is a trilogy built around three themes: loneliness, guilt, and resurrection. The three parts of this trilogy, Autopsy, Mil Tristes Tigres and Europa, respectively explore these issues through a drama that relies on visual theater, dance and performance, and integrates video and multimedia elements in its formalization. Europa, the third part of this trilogy, suggests a reflection on the notion of resurrection.
“We force ourselves to be reborn from our ashes every day. We, exhausted phoenix, stuffed with drugs and silicon with the sole mission and possibility of crashing every day against ourselves. We are the power. We are the future. We are the children of the new era that is coming. But neither we have nor instruction manuals nor an idea to embrace. So we only have two choices: make up or explode. And we’ll do it with a hymn. But what?”
Original idea and direction: Àlex Serrano Tarragó / Dramaturgy: Pau Palacios, Àlex Serrano / Creation and performance: Diego Anido, Ester Forment, Susana Gómez / Choreography: Ester Forment / Assistant director and Producer: Alicia Gorina and Barbara Bloin / Lighting: Isabel Franco / Music: Sebastián García Ferro / Interactive video application: Martí Sanchez -Fibla/ Space and costumes: Silvia Delagneau / Dressmaking: Rosa Pozuelo / Photographs: Vicenzo Rigogliuso.
Agrupación Señor Serrano, Festival GREC and Festival Temporada Alta.
AREAtangent, La Caldera and ICAC Generalitat de Catalunya.