CONSTELLATIONS OF ADRA | THEATRE
Constellations of Adra is a 10-minute snippet of physical
theatre on the (un)making of landscape in southern Spain. Performed by
anthropologists Katya Lachowicz and Rich Thornton, it stages a melting
of political geographies and narrative threads to produce a composite
terrain, where environments, bodies, and histories dissolve and
reconfigure in real time. Drawing on Katya’s ethnographic fieldwork in
Andalusia, which moves across time and the landscapes of coast and
mountain, the
performance weaves movement, soundscape, pause, and tension into a feral
composition of 90s rave music, industrial exhaustion, and conflict.
Inspired by Walter Benjamin’s Arcades Project, fragmented narratives fuse, erode and dissolve, twisting across
political faultlines to become (un)made as rural utopias, dystopias
and techno-futures. Grounded in field-recordings crafted into an
evolving soundscape that shapes its rhythm and atmosphere; narratives
are never allowed to settle. So too the flowing body on stage embraces
accident and friction, caught between techno and birdsong, in the
dynamic interplay of ethnographic threads.
The Ethnographic Salon will take place during EASA2026 on Thursday, 23 July, from 7:30 PM to 10:00 PM at Pawilon, ul. Ewangelicka 1, Poznań.
Registration link:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/
Venue information:
https://pawilon.org
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