​Ideas for a sharing project:​
…THREE CHILDREN ARE WATCHING MAMA-TV AND FIND OUT THAT COSTARICA IS THE WORLD’S ONLY NATION WITHOUT AN ARMY, SO…
I recall suddenly becoming a child again after hearing this news:  I was lost, laughed hysterically and eventually felt really peaceful, almost orgasmic. Then a whole load of questions rose up, even childish ones: if Costarica has no army, it doesn’t need any weapons, which means that in case of conflict it is “forced” to fight it differently?! What if all the other states followed its example? There would be no more wars nor weapons in the world?? It does not take much then! You just need to decide not to have an army anymore!
After this pleasant moment of childish and naive utopia, I was left with something extremely strong and concrete which I deeply believe in and which I really want to share: for a moment I was free to imagine something different, new frontiers, a change in which to believe and which could also be achievable. This is only possible if we free our imagination, without limiting ourselves with thoughts of impossibility.
As a theatre person I feel responsible to the audience for the message I spread and never as much as at the present moment in time did I consider the so called “artists” in the right position to stimulate a change.
I would like to create a shared project, a protocol of several different performing actions not limited to a specific means of expression, from drama to dance, from performance to photography and video, everyone with a communicative means, in a country, with an audience and the different stories they conceived and which are all linked together by some mark, idea, a fil rouge. The starting point will be the same and the way of developing and narrating it will always differ; the discovery of something which makes it impossible to imagine and to believe a change can be made, a childish and utopic thought that becomes violently passionate and concrete.
I really believe in a project of sharing that would leave each participant’s creativity intact, that would spread out like a “righteous virus”, ever changing and therefore immune to any antidote, yet able to create moments of relation, dialogue and creation.
I keep waiting for other “scimmie” (“monkeys”) who would like to see, hear and talk, by rebelling to other less courageous and undoubtedly less interesting sisters.
Carlo Nigra +La Quarta Scimmia