Work created, acted and directed by Alberto Kurapel in 1986 and later made into a film by filmmaker Jorge Fajardo, in Canada.
«Off-Off-Off ou Sur le toit de Pablo Neruda» (1986), work created, acted and directed by Alberto Kurapel in 1986. Presented in Montreal and later in important Festivals such as the Festival de Théâtre des Amériques, Festival de Europa, (France 1988), Festival de Théâtre populaire, in New Brunswick, (1988).
This is an absolute premiere in Chile for the general public. This film of the complete work was made by filmmaker Jorge Fajardo, in Canada, and premiered at the Festival du Films du Monde, in 1988.
The work associates the search for a missing political prisoner, the recognition of our multiple and diverse identities, and artistic exploration to find the exact poetics of a contemporary scenic language that corresponds to the historical reality in which the artist inserts himself.
Re-think theatre, a premise embedded in a stage space circumscribed by an Installation of burned boards (recovered at the site of a fire), with intertexts by authors such as Pier Paolo Pasolini, H. Marcuse, M. Maguire, U. Eco, etc.), with film segments, video, slides and with a repeated and obsessive question from the character: «Where is it? Où est?
The sequence of twenty slides showing the methods of torture of a woman, a missing political prisoner, with which the work begins, appears as information that is assembled in fiction thanks to a journalistic or documentary treatment, as a reference and sign of historicity, allowing us to re-visit and re-think the narrative, by being incorporated as a link between intervention and reality, between presentation and representation, reflection of exiled, marginalized artists, from the margins of the First World.
Here the tragedy of the disappeared detainees is specifically rewritten from a social context, intertwined with the search for an unpublished language by the "artist-performer", exchanging the searches, which leads to transforming this disappeared prisoner woman into the language of the man who searches for her and who, not finding her, immolates himself, taking his language-life.
This is an absolute premiere in Chile for the general public. This film of the complete work was made by filmmaker Jorge Fajardo, in Canada, and premiered at the Festival du Films du Monde, in 1988.
The work associates the search for a missing political prisoner, the recognition of our multiple and diverse identities, and artistic exploration to find the exact poetics of a contemporary scenic language that corresponds to the historical reality in which the artist inserts himself.
Re-think theatre, a premise embedded in a stage space circumscribed by an Installation of burned boards (recovered at the site of a fire), with intertexts by authors such as Pier Paolo Pasolini, H. Marcuse, M. Maguire, U. Eco, etc.), with film segments, video, slides and with a repeated and obsessive question from the character: «Where is it? Où est?
The sequence of twenty slides showing the methods of torture of a woman, a missing political prisoner, with which the work begins, appears as information that is assembled in fiction thanks to a journalistic or documentary treatment, as a reference and sign of historicity, allowing us to re-visit and re-think the narrative, by being incorporated as a link between intervention and reality, between presentation and representation, reflection of exiled, marginalized artists, from the margins of the First World.
Here the tragedy of the disappeared detainees is specifically rewritten from a social context, intertwined with the search for an unpublished language by the "artist-performer", exchanging the searches, which leads to transforming this disappeared prisoner woman into the language of the man who searches for her and who, not finding her, immolates himself, taking his language-life.