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Invisible-theater in Mallorca PDF Print E-mail
Written by Francesco Lugli   
sabato, 25 agosto 2007

teatrindifesi has participated proposing two actions of invisibile theatre in the island of 11 the 10 Mallorca and August 2007 in occasion of the initiative

ses covetes

in order to celebrate a victory of the mobilitation of the civil society against the speculation of building. They have been five days of music, theatre, poetry, participation, cinema, art and... sea.

A wide collective ecologist "has occupied" the structures not finished of some of the 68 apartments, originally created for summery rent, and informed people sunbathing on the last legal developments.

These two flors buildings appear in 1994 on precious coastal enviroment ; the neighbors denunciated it and the construction was blocked some month after; the ecological disaster had already happened.

It follows a legal battle more than 10 years long. Recently the sentence of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Baleari Islands said these buildings are illegal. And now? Which it will be the destiny of these structures? social use? they will be demolished? and with the moneies of who? The battle is still long. The majority of people wants the demolition, too many times has let to run.

Both actions of invisibile theatre had the main objective investigate the level of information and the opinion of the public in regard to the case of Ses Covetes and on the relative mobilitation ecologist.

The first action was less spectacular but closer to the methodology of the invisibile-theater and the second had a greater impact but was less realistic. First action of invisibile theatre: an infomation point was created with attivisti/attori that try to inform passing on the history of Ses Covetes; to spin bagnanti/attori take part that esplicitano different ideas on the construction: who is against the mobilitation and asserts that the houses go completed, who are to favor of the demolition, who is in favor of one they social reconversion. In more occasions passing is stopped to listen, and some, participate to the debate. We notice much giving up, in little would want that they were completed. Some osservatori/attori notice diffidenza towards the activists ecologists. Second action of invisibile theatre: The following day an architect, a master builder Andalusian, six masons, with a lot of shovels and instruments of measure, puts itself to picchettare and recintare zones of the beach in sight of the construction of a new residential complex fantomatico. Overwhelmed people find themselves locked up in the future drawing-room, rather than in the kitchen or the bath. Some bagnanti/attori foment the argument, some are enthusiastic for the possibility to buy one house in river to the sea, annoyed and polemici others. The scene is grotesque and falls the ipostesi of "invisibilità" ovverosia that the introduced scene can be considered like real: in many they connect it to the mobilitation of the ecologists. Here we record in numerous cases diffidenza and giving up: "what serves to disturb of people in vacation". Many others take part with a phantom of reactions that goes from the curisità to the worry. info in Catalan: http://agrohoritzontal.wordpress.com/

Last Updated ( martedì, 28 agosto 2007 )