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Title: 
Deus ex machina
Programme: 
Prototipoak. International Biennial of New Artistic Forms
Date: 
30-05-2023 / 03-06-2023
Place: 
Exhbition hall, floor -2
Artist(s): 
Teatro Ojo
Curator(s): 
Casado, Rosa
López, Maider (1975- )
Noël, Stéphane
Pérez, Fernando
Produced by: 
Azkuna Zentroa - Alhóndiga Bilbao
Type: 
Performance
Tags: 
Performance
Art installations
Summary: 
Deus Ex Machina is a performance and participatory art project to listen to the multiple and singular ways in which an entire country speaks.
From a Call Centre installed in the Azkuna Zentroa Exhibition Hall, the many voices which inhabit the Basque Country and other parts of Spain are brought together.

Each call is made through an open script of very diverse questions geared towards producing unimagined conversations to delve into the historical unconscious of the territory. The word is used to shape how people imagine their own world and their resulting mood.

The questions seek to awaken the subconscious of those who answer the phone and find a voice on the other end of the telephone line calling from a cultural centre. The voices of those who remain on the line and answer the scripted questions will be heard in real time within the performance space.

Thus, Deus Ex Machina comprises an exhibition of voices in an artistic proposal that moves between theatre and installation.
Description: 
Action / Performance

Live calls from the Call Center installed in the Exhibition Hall

May 30th and 31st and June 1st, 2nd and 3rd - 5:00pm to 8:00pm. Free admission

A Teatro Ojo project: Héctor Bourges, Karla Rodríguez, Patricio Villarreal, Laura Furlan, Fernanda Villegas y Alonso Arrieta.

Colaboration: Jesús Pérez Caballero y Rodrigo Parrini.

Call Centre Artistic Team: Soraya Acosta, Saray García, Ane Lainsa, Marina Lapuente, Isabel Molinos, Susana Saguer, Sandra Tejero, Jaseff Raziel Yauri

In colaboration with: Lanalden, Dantzerti
Related activities: 
Prototipoak. International Biennial of New Artistic Forms (2023)
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Exhibition projects