Teatro della Terra Alienata: Re-imagining the Fate of the Great Barrier Reef (EN)

Halfway between theory-fiction, speculative fabulation, audiovisual research, and dramaturgy, Teatro Della Terra Alienatastages a fictional scenario of territorial secession. The book addresses the urgency raised by the United Nations’ IPCC report published in 2018, which framed the decay of the Great Barrier Reef as part of a wicked problem that demands radical political actions, along with new imaginaries and aesthetic paradigms. The project proposes a re-appropriation, expansion, and concatenation of existing technologies of surveillance and environmental management embedded in the life cycles of the reef, as well as the infrastructures of extraction existing in the region. Inspired by the Xenofeminist Manifesto, Teatro turns these technologies into the poetic arsenal for a rational, universalist project of emancipation, “cutting across race, ability, economic standing, and geographical position.”

Grandeza/Bajeza Based in Sydney since 2015, Grandeza (Amaia Sanchez-Velasco, Jorge Valiente Oriol, and Gonzalo Valiente Oriol) is a collective of architects, artists, educators and researchers founded in Madrid in 2011. In mid-2017, they started collaborating with Miguel Rodriguez-Casellas (alias Bajeza), operating since then as the creative “ménage-à-quatre” Grandeza/Bajeza. Their work studies late-capitalist spaces and narratives to identify – through critical analysis – and challenge – through political imagination – the mechanisms that veil and normalize neoliberal violence.