MAPA TEATRO LABORATORIO DE ARTISTAS
www.mapateatro.org
Bio
Colombian artists, Heidi, Elizabeth and Rolf Abderhalden founded Mapa Teatro in 1984. Since its inception, Mapa Teatro has built a universe within the Living Arts, a place ripe for transgressing disciplinary boundaries, fusing languages and readings, and articulating local and global concerns.
Abstract
Witness to the Ruins
This performance synthesizes, in a non-chronological or linear way,
Mapa Teatro’s experience during the process of disappearance of the
El Cartucho neighborhood in Bogotá, Colombia. By documenting the disappearance
of a place, and the appearance of a non-place, Mapa Teatro seeks to
make visible molecular places where residues of otherness remain, traces
of that which has been lost, narrations that reconfigure the neighborhood’s
memory. Mapa reiterates its interest in inscribing, to the end, its
experience as a witness through an artistic gesture.
