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.
The project will be launched during Pergine Spettacolo Aperto Performing Arts Festival with the International Seminar on Work and Happiness, on July 14 – 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 Carla Esperanza Tommasini (Pergine Spettacolo Aperto) and José Capela (mala voadora). Check the programme and all its related details below.
h. 5pm / SALA MAIER
• OPENING SESSION
h. 5.30pm – 9pm / ITINERANT
• FIELD WORK 2
Vanja Babic / Bojan Mucko
participatory performance – FREE
Together with the participants,Vanja Babic and Bojan Mucko will build a wall made of a pile of bricks in the open urban area of public space. 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.
h. 6pm – 7.30pm / RIMIESSA CARROZZE
• N.O.W. New Open Working process for the performing arts
Round table – 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.
h. 9pm / TEATRO COMUNALE
• HAPPINESS CALLING
Talk show – 12€ / 9€
With Santiago Cirugeda (architect), Apostolos Karakasis (filmmaker), Nina Power (philosopher), Helen Hester (philosopher)
Hosted by 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.
h. 9am – 1pm / PALESTRA SCUOLA RODARI
• LAISSEZ FAIRE
Marta Melucci and Francesca Telli/Schuko company
Dance lazyshop (max 20 people) – 5€
The lazyshop will be based on the idea of “passivity”, a radical physical condition in which participants will be guided through basic common actions. What is laziness? Is it a state that give us profound pleasure and free us from responsibilities, or is it, on the contrary, a state in which we end up depending on others, not able to express our will?
h. 10am – 1pm / ITINERANT
• FIELD WORK 2
Vanja Babic / Bojan Mucko
Participatory performance – FREE
h. 11am / RIMIESSA CARROZZE
• NEXT STOP: UTOPIA
Documentary film – FREE
The Greek company Vio.Me, specialized in construction materials, declares bankruptcy and the factory workers decide to occupy the premises to manage it themselves. Their determination inspires activists worldwide, while the former owner watches with incredulity how his family business has become a symbol of a popular take over.
h. 4 pm – 6pm / PALESTRA SCUOLA RODARI
• WORKER’S CLUB: YOU AND YOUR WORK
Incompany
Workshop (max. 30 people) – 5€
By using small objects as metaphors to visualize personal values, participants will examine their personal identity both at work and at home, their behaviour during their leisure time and how they relate to the world in general. By constructing a system of beliefs, they will imagine and perform collectively different versions of the “ideal society”.
h. 4pm – 6pm / SALA ESPOSITIVA TEATRO
• THE LAB OF DOING NOTHING
Christina Schultz
Workshop (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.
h. 7pm / CLOSING SESSION
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