Rimini Protokoll

For this international conference, the guest experts do not travel physically, rather, they have themselves represented by local people who do not receive their script until the beginning of their presentation and who take on the identity of an absent speaker. With no CO2 emissions or bad Internet connections, but mobilising all the performance means of theatre, the contributions and the conflicting theories on the consequences of globalisation are delivered and embodied in the space of the theatre. 

Every evening the public and the actors attempt to break the injunction to be present and together they explore the advantages of not being there. In the centre of this exchange, individuals who become mouthpieces for ideas and who adopt in a playful manner both the autobiographies and the thoughts of the experts. The space of the absent becomes a playground that opens up to new enrolments members and unexpected perspectives.