Artist Talk with Daniel Wetzel, Rimini Protokoll
Daniel Wetzel of Rimini Protokoll will take us through the journey of their work from a pirate copy of an entire parliamentary session performed by experts, to intercontinental call centre theatre. To the audience as a writer's collective and a stage as film set for reenactments. Wetzel will offer an insight into the wide range of Rimini Protokoll's projects- from their origin in the 1990's to current times. He will discuss what happens with facts on stage, and with the individual once he/she/it performs itself. What is the potential for an audience that finds itself in the position of the expert?
The talk will be followed by a conversation between Anuja Ghosalkar and Daniel Wetzel and will be opened to audience questions too.
The conversation between the two will focus on the question of what is Post Documentary theatre? Is it the end of Documentary theatre?
Anuja Ghosalkar through her conversation and comments will share her journey into the world of Documentary theatre. She will look at what it means to be working towards a medium that is a counter form to mainstream modes of production and aesthetic. She will share her work and its roots in a feminist framework. Her work around a performance form she loosely calls "documentary theatre" is up for examination, open to change, malleable- rather than fix it as a category. Her pedagogic interest is in what are the contours of this performance practice and to work towards a form that is freeing rather than limiting.
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