Una isla

Agrupación Señor Serrano

March 21 – 22, 2024

Running time 65’

The creator’s fear of being overwhelmed by their own creation is a recurring literary theme throughout the ages. Today it has led to the dilemma of the co-existence of human and artificial intelligence, where the latter is seen as a threat. But is this the only way to view it? In a world in which resources are being depleted and tomorrow’s challenges place demands on humanity for ever more collaboration, the extraordinary creativity of Agrupación Señor Serrano interrogates AI to imagine new scenarios, a new “us”, in a journey between dance and performance, between physical and digital that will call on the spectators to consider a possible future.

Agrupación Señor Serrano is a theater company founded in Barcelona that creates original productions about discordant aspects of contemporary human experience. Their shows mix live video, text, performance, scale models, sound and objects and have toured internationally. With Una isla, Agrupación Señor Serrano takes a further step in its scenic exploration and presents itself as never seen before. Consisting of Àlex Serrano, Pau Palacios and Barbara Bloin, the company, in addition to the Silver Lion at the Venice Biennale in 2015, has received other awards, such as the 2017 Premi Ciutat de Barcelona de Teatre and the 2016 Premi FAD Sebastià Gasch d'Arts Parateatrals.

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Performance with textual projections in Italian and supporting English texts

Credits

creation of: Agrupación Señor Serrano
direction and dramaturgy: Àlex Serrano, Pau Palacios
dramaturgy assistant: Carlota Grau
performers: Carlota Grau, Lia Vohlgemuth, Sara Montalvão, Bartosz Ostrowski, local performers
holographic performer: Eva Torróntegui
choreography: Núria Guiu (in collaboration with the performers)
set and costume design: Xesca Salvà
lighting design: Cube.bz
music: Nico Roig
holographic video creation: David Negrão
video programming: David Muñiz
stage manager and performer: Camille Latron
artificial intelligences used during the creation process: GPT-3, Bloom, ChatGPT, DALL·E, Stable Diffusion, Midjourney, FILM
production direction: Barbara Bloin
executive production: Paula S. Viteri
management: Art Republic
producers: GREC Festival de Barcelona, Câmara Municipal de Setúbal, Rota Clandestina, Festival Internacional de Teatro de Expressão Iberica (FITEI), Centro Cultural CondeDuque, Laboratorio de las Artes de Valladolid (LAVA), CSS Teatro Stabile di Innovazione del Friuli-Venezia Giulia, TPE – Festival delle Colline Torinesi, SPRING Festival, Feikes Huis, Departament de Cultura de la Generalitat
in collaboration with: Ajuntament de Terrassa, Fabra i Coats Fàbrica de creació de Barcelona