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LA CULTURA

Los Torreznos

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Performance
Country: Spain
Approx. length: 1 h 10 min (no intermission)
Language: Spanish
Year of production: 2007

Show in collaboration with the Theatre Network of the Community of Madrid
Authors: Los Torreznos (Jaime Vallaure and Rafael Lamata)
Performers: Los Torreznos

The duo of Los Torreznos, with their incontrovertible, albeit unclassifiable, artistic endeavours, falling somewhere between performance, action art and experimental theatre, has created under such a generic, yet ironic, title, a work that plays with the basis of what could be a conference on culture, which is broken down into several points of view. The work is conceptually supported, first by the idea that nobody is uncultured, as culture is a merely human construct. Indeed, they say ‘if they cut your head off, there’s no culture’. But a more restricted definition would lead us to see culture as that elevated something that enables a certain type of existential transcendence and pleasure, meaning that perhaps not all human beings are highbrow. The latest conceptual prerogative used by Jaime Vallaure and Rafael Lamata says that ‘culture is a pastime of death: Los Torreznos being Western human beings, since we were little, we’ve been interested in culture. We don’t move away from it even to sleep. We participate in the show, and we love other species of living beings and connect to beings that are honestly uncultured and that’s why we are doing this work.’

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