What if the landscape was a theatre? What if art did not represent the environment, but allowed us to experience it collectively? What is at stake today in our relationship to “nature” and its representations, and in the relationship between urban and rural spaces, in a time when our climate and resources are leading us towards a new awareness of fragility and interdependence?

Caroline Barneaud (Théâtre Vidy-Lausanne) and Stefan Kaegi (Rimini Protokoll) are inviting institutions and artists to leave the cities, theatres and venues in order to “enter the landscape”, to pay collective attention to what surrounds us, and to share in a way of looking at territory, far from that of developers or owners. International artists, partners and local teams will come together to create a theatrical journey between field and forest, in a kind of performative, theatrical, ephemeral and collective piece of land art.

Spectators will meet in the countryside in the afternoon for a new kind of excursion: an artistic escapade. After receiving a map and a small kit bag, they will embark on a journey until sunset, the discovery of a territory and seven “variations on the landscape” created by artists.

Seven artists or artist duos of different nationalities and artistic disciplines – Chiara Bersani and Marco D’Agostin, El Conde de Torrefiel, Sofia Dias and Vítor Roriz, Begüm Erciyas and Daniel Kötter, Stefan Kaegi, Ari Benjamin Meyers, Emilie Rousset – have devised light and mobile performances. These pieces posit that the landscape is not a mere backdrop, inviting us instead to immerse ourselves in it, to enter into relationships in a different and collective way, to shift our usual perspectives, to highlight the invisible as well as some of the fictions that govern our perceptions of nature.

With pieces by
Chiara Bersani and Marco D’Agostin (Italy)
El Conde de Torrefiel (Spain)
Sofia Dias and Vítor Roriz (Portugal)
Begüm Erciyas and Daniel Kötter (Turkey, Belgium, Germany)
Stefan Kaegi (Germany, Switzerland)
Ari Benjamin Meyers (USA, Germany)
Émilie Rousset (France)

Estimated length : 7 hours, including breaks
Performative land art: theatre, performances,
music, all taking place outdoors.

All the pieces are translated, adapted and restaged with local teams,
with local musicians, actors and experts.

Tangente St. Pölten

With the musicians of Studio Dan: Viola Falb – Saxophon, Musikalische Leitung,  Doris Nicoletti – Flöte, Damaris Richerts – Trompete, Julia Schreitl – Saxophon, Anna Guggenberger – Tuba, Daniel Riegler – Posaune

Performance:

Lausanne

Musicians (in Ari Benjamin Meyers's piece)
Stéphane Pecorini (musical director)
Remi Cluzel (trumpet)
Ganesh Geymeier (saxophone)
Annika Granlund (tuba)
Elise Jacquemettaz (trombone)
Juliane Rickenmann (saxophone)
Rocío Sánchez Gallego (saxophone)
Alexandre Tkaboca (flete)

Voices (in Stefan Kaegi's piece)
Mireille Cifali Bega
Olivier Tomasini
Adele Poncet
Lionel Regamey
Isumi Grichting

Performing and music (in Chiara Bersani & Marco D'Agostin's piece)
Swan Muller (performer)
Lemmo (music)

Performers and texts (in Emilie Rousset's piece)
Jean-Luc Chollet (farmer)
Joëlle Fontannaz (actress)
Mathieu Ziegler (actor)
Elise Simonet (dramaturg)
Interview with Faustine Bas-Defossez (environment, health and nature director at the European Environmental Bureau)
Entretien avec Jean-Luc Chollet (Agriculteur à la retraite)
Interview with Fanny Rybak (researcher in ethology and bio-acoustics)

Avignon

With the musicians Maxime Atger alternating with Anton Chauvet, Amandine Ayme (saxophones), Julien Berteau (trombone), Téoxane Duval (flute), Leïla Ensanyar (trumpet), Ulysse Manaud (tuba)

And Corentin Combe, Thomas Gonzalez, Emmanuelle Lafon, Clément and Guillaume Papachristou


And the voices of Henri Carques, Febe Fougère, Charles Passebois, Sylvie Prieur, Oksana Zhurauel-Ohorodnyx

Berlin / Hangelsberg

Apparat with Guests
Malin Sieberns – flute
Ruth Velten – saxophone
Martin Posegga – saxophone
Paul Hübner – trumpet
Maxine Troglauer – trombone
Max Murray – tuba

Brigitte Cuvelier
Fernanda Farah
Carolin Hartmann
Christian Hohm
Carlo Horn
Michaela Koschak
Emil Leyerle
Magali Tosato
Dr. Mai Wegener
and many more

Production and coordination
Isabelle Campiche, Aline Fuchs (Théâtre Vidy- Lausanne)

Coordination of
Performing Landscape
Chloé Ferro, Monica Ferrari,
Lara Fischer (Rimini Protokoll)

Artistic assistant
Giulia Rumasuglia, Magali Tosato

Stage manager
Guillaume Zemor

Polyvalent technician
Xavier De Marcellis

Video technicians
Nicolas Gerlier, Victor Hunziker

Sound technicians
Janyves le Coïc, Charlotte Constant, Marc Pieussergues

Props
Matthieu Dorsaz

Costumes
Machteld Vis

Communication
Pierre-Paul Bianchi

Scientific coordination
Darious Ghavami

Design of the map and pictograms
Achitecture Land Initiative (ALIN)

Graphic design
AMI

Web Design
Gaetan Langlois-Meurinne

Production
Rimini Apparat (Germany)
Théâtre Vidy-Lausanne (Switzerland)

Co-Production
Performing landscape, European Consortium : Bunker and Mladi Levi Festival (Slovenia), Culturgest (Portugal), Festival d’Avignon (France), Tangente St. Pölten – Festival für Gegenwartskultur (Austria), Temporada Alta (Spain), Zona K and Piccolo Teatro di Milano Teatro d’Europa (Italy)

Berliner Festspiele (Germany)