The programme said: “Tents: enough.” Gaztetxe was empty in the absence of ten minutes, waiting for young people to drink the coffee of the last minute and take their eyebrows off. But the banks were filling up and the room was clean before the five minutes of courtesy had passed. The audience is silent, when the artists show up. Instead, a video projected onto a structure covered with rough paper. A lamp turned off, a chair and a notebook pulled by the ground. Everything can happen and the public is willing to everything.
Two people have appeared naturally, speaking of everyday life, representing echoes that reach them from the bowels. Do we see all colors in the same way? Is it me? You? How far am I, how far are you? Through dialogue and poems we have found a spectacle that makes us reflect on the relationships between clarity and collectivity, in a gaztetxe. There can be no better example for staging the travesías between the subjective and the political. Throughout the programme, the two friends have continued to pull the extremes taken at the beginning of the action, now verbally, now in writing, even by audiovisual means and body expression, rattling the defects of the stomach.
The videos and recordings that have been used also complete the story of the creation, as if the stolen fragments from a day to day had been embedded in the staging. Making off captured in the work itself. A metaphor, after all. Each video, reflection, song, poem, gesture, recital, adds a cover to the work, allowing the interiors to be undressed and the gaps detected to be dressed. Make knots and dissolve them like in wool suits.
Eguzki Donnellan Armengod and Haizea Beruete Lopetegi is a rookie creation project. The two artists created the show thanks to the Young Creators of Vitoria-Gasteiz scholarship, under the direction of Itziar Rekalde Luzarraga. They recently debuted in Vitoria-Gasteiz, and there are still scenes left to be premiered. So follow the tour that you just started and see what the sound of the tents echoes.