Aby Cohen

Politics

PQ’15, by the concept POLITICS, aims to bring, into the heart of the scene, the designer for performance as a conductor who will establish interactions, promote actions, and provoke experiences of coexistence. Recognizing the critical role played by the designer on (re)defining a space; establishing a relationship between stage, audience, environment and society; creating a lively place formed by the overlapping of intertwining layers, building a plural identity, conflicts and narratives.

Space as POLITICS focuses on reuniting and representing multitude of voices, keeping open, listening and motivating the interrelationships. A place where a strong statement of political organization is presented in a way that no one can remain indifferent.

Space as a common territory for the artistic expression: the main axis to the theatricality and the performative practices, a meeting point of distinct languages, identities, point of views and conflicts.

Space as the mediator of interrelationships: in which the local and the global references are presented, bringing distinct identities into to a confrontation between the spatial and temporal boundaries, tracing an imaginary and temporary Urbis.

Curators of the Countries and Regions Section were invited to work on a new geography for the PQ ‘15 by taking on the concept of Space as POLITICS: exploring the spatial features that lead to the rule of POLITICS: its capacity for interaction, divisibility, and configuration: to reflect its occupancy and (re)organization, not only as a lay-out but as a political attitude, and how it will affect the other curators on the borders... Traces of territories in common shared or in contest, reinforcing the idea that space is not a static lifeless body but always on the move.