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Does a person feel happier working or not working? Does work provide the solution for our collective happiness? Or rather does laziness?

These are some of the core questions of A manual on work and happiness, an international collaborative project whose final result will be a text conceived as a manual explaining step by step how to construct a performance which, in turn, illustrate how to possibly achieve happiness through working. This show can be set up in any part of the world, simply by following the instructions guidelines, just like a DIY manual.

Changing the world won’t be an easy task.

The project will be launched during Pergine Spettacolo Aperto Performing Arts Festival with the International Seminar on Work and Happiness, on July 14 and 15 2017, where experts will be invited to present their research and the audience will be able to participate in the discussion as well as exchange opinions and perspectives on the topics: happiness, work, laziness, creativity.

The International Seminar is curated by José Capela (mala voadora) and Carla Esperanza Tommasini (Pergine Spettacolo Aperto).

PROGRAMME

FRIDAY, JULY 14
5pm I Sala Maier
Opening – free

5.30pm – 9pm I Itinerant
Vanja Babic / Bojan Mucko, FIELD WORK 2 (HR)
participatory performance – free
A brick wall that moves around the urban space in its continuous making and unmaking. A collective work without a specific meaning as a powerful metaphor of contemporary society.

6pm – 7.30pm I Rimessa Carrozze
N.O.W. New Open Working process for the performing arts
Roundtable – free
A focus on the paradigmatic change of productive processes in the field of performing arts and their fruition by the audience. An interactive format/experience that helps navigating a visual mapping of the lexicon that presents the issues and criticalities the partners have faced during the project.

9pm I Teatro Comunale
HAPPINESS CALLING
Talk-show – 12€ / 9€
with: Santiago Cirugeda (architect), Helen Hester (researcher), Apostolos Karakakis (filmmaker), Nina Power (philosopher)
host: Riccarda Zezza (researcher)

The focus of this conference-talk show is to explore new theories and perspectives on how to find happiness through work (or without work), with the help of international guests from the fields of various academic disciplines, research and artistic practices.

SATURDAY, JULY 15

9am – 1pm I Palestra Scuola Rodari
Marta Melucci and Francesca Telli / Schuko company, LAISSEZ FAIRE
Dance lazyshop (max 20 people) – 5€

Through actions and exercises the participants will explore “passivity”, a radical physical condition, in which intention is turned off in order to push the body towards a total state of abandon.

10am – 1pm I Itinerant
Vanja Babic / Bojan Mucko, FIELD WORK 2
Free

A brick wall that moves around the urban space in its continuous making and unmaking. A collective work without a specific meaning as a powerful metaphor of contemporary society.

11am I Rimessa carrozze
Apostolos Karakakis, NEXT STOP: UTOPIA
Documentary film
Free

The Greek company Vio.Me, specialised in construction materials, declares bankruptcy and the factory workers decide to occupy the premises to manage it themselves. The workers soon realise that self-management and direct democracy require a personal transformation that goes beyond the working environment.

4pm – 6pm I Scuole Rodari
Incompany, WORKER’S CLUB: YOU AND YOUR WORK
Workshop (max. 30 people) – 5€

Through a playful and participatory approach,participants will examine their personal identity and behaviour at work, at home, during their leisure time and how they relate to the world in general in order to perform collectively different versions of the “ideal society”.

4pm – 6pm I Sala Espositiva Teatro
Christina Schultz, THE LABORATORY OF DOING NOTHING
Lazyshop (max. 30 people) – 5€

The origin of all evil in the world is work. The Lab of ‘doing nothing’ is a collaborative research lazyshop against work. It is a proposal to learn to say no, to do less or nothing and to experiment with counterproduction. Happiness is a result, not a status.

7pm I Sala Maier
Closing session

INFO AND TICKETS

AT THE BOXOFFICE
Between July 1 – 15 2017 at:
c/o Sala Maier, piazza Serra 14 Pergine Valsugana (TN)
10 am -12 pm | 4.30 am – 11 pm
Phone +39 345 7667445
Email ticket@perginefestival.it

ONLINE SALES
From June 16 at www.primiallaprima.it