POETICS OF SURVIVAL 2023

Manifesto Poetico is honoured to be invited by Giller Prize Winning Author, Johanna Skibsrud

Artistic directors Paige Allerton and Carlos García Estévez will share their experience, practice and philosophy with poets, writers on the subject of:

AFTER THE SUBLIME:
ECOPOETICS IN THE AGE OF THE ANTHROPOCENE

Their contribution will be inspired by Manifesto Poetico’s umbrella project, THE POETICS OF SURVIVAL.

MANIFESTO POETICO WILL PROPOSE:

- A hands-on intro to THE ELASTICS (an ecosystem of structures)

- An introduction to SPATIAL DRAMATURGY

- Insight into THE EPIC BORDERS TRILOGY followed by a Q&A

- and SOLO DELL’ARTE, a performance follow by a Q&A

The Poetics of Survival: beyond global climate change, is a research and devising theatre project that looks at what we do, think and need in the global reality of Climate Change. We look at the Social, Political and Personal, in a search to examine the issues at hand, the dilemmas yet to arise, and the permanencies that Climate cannot Change.

The Poetics of Survival is an ongoing project. One of the functions of this project is to support and provide insightful content with a global interest. It is the source of the content for all of our TransPoetico productions and Open Laboratories. These two pillars, Poetics of Survival and our Fundamental Theatre Research, make Manifesto Poetico.

***PULSE*** - TransPoetico Production **©The Elastics** (Kuala Lumpur 2018)

***SPATIAL DRAMATURGY - Three Dimensional Awareness.*** Open Laboratory (Paris 2018)

SUBJECT OF STUDY

AFTER THE SUBLIME:

ECOPOETICS IN THE AGE OF THE ANTHROPOCENE

“In a 2016 special issue of New Literary History on “Recomposing the Humanities—with Bruno Latour,” Latour used the concept of the sublime as an example of “the immense amount of work lying ahead for the field of the humanities. First,” he writes, “we are no longer at a safe distance from any of the effects of the “forces of nature”; second, we are told by many scientific disciplines that we have become so big, so cumbersome, that we, as humans, are now of a size commensurable with volcanoes and, some say, with plate tectonics; as to the immense grandeur of our morality, alas, we seem so dejected, so puny, that we have not the slightest idea of how to respond to the new situation.” To better understand the challenge Latour here lays out to practitioners of the humanities, this course proposes guided readings and discussions of the history and theoretical framework of the concept of the sublime alongside contemporary discussions around ecopoetics and the Anthropocene.

In addition to a theoretical or academic understanding of these issues, this class seeks to extend Latour’s challenge and ask students to engage with it in a hands-on way. How might we begin to respond differently to the relationship between subject and object, forces of nature and concepts of human morality? This course will contain “fieldwork” elements and an exchange of work and ideas with contemporary poets grappling with similar questions and ideas.”

— Johanna Skibsrud

THE EPIC BORDERS TRILOGY

THE GATE OF HOPE - BELFAST 1919 - IN THE NAME OF HUMANITY

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SOLO DELL’ARTE

APRIL 19th

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"Humanity needs a revolution to visibly change the structural causes at the root of the militarization of the world, the amplifying social inequality, the ecological devastation, the economy in perdition dominated by the financial industry, the meaning of life pulverized under the survival tools of the richest and most powerful."

-Riccardo Petrella

“Paige and Carlos are the constructors of meaning and thought. You are the ones who make my work understandable.”

- Riccardo Petrella

(Riccardo Petrella is an Italian economist, political scientist and a leading figure in the anti-globalisation movement. Former director of the European Coordination Centre for Research and Documentation in Social Sciences (UNESCO))

“Manifesto Poetico makes theatre that is more related with us and not with stereotypes. Something completely new every time. Poetry and suggestion.”