Campaign Theaters: When the city becomes score
Public works, sounds of sirens, municipal brigades and universal monuments. When the public space dresses in stage and the city becomes a score, the noise becomes music, the citizens of artists and everyday life in a celebration. Campaign Theaters,,,,,, Marc Salicrú (Mataró, 1993) This is exactly this: an ideological, conceptual, artistic and scenic umbrella. It is a reunion with the neighbors, with popular culture. Remove the headphones and listen to the world around us. Raise our gaze, look at what we have around, and that each assistant begins their own journey. Salicrú puts the base of the show, time and stopwatches, but it is the viewer who completes it. “The goal is for people to connect with the elements from their backpacks. Maybe it is thanks to a memory that each one completes this image in some way,” says Salicrú.
Salicrú has never stopped experimenting, to search. However, always without a fixed goal, without knowing what it is looking for. It is this inherent need what has led him to be where he is today. Intermediate artist, lamp designer, set designer and musician. Dozens of shows along with recognized names in his ten years of his career. Today, however, he still doesn’t know what he is looking for. What is clear is the passion he feels when “creating bubbles where time and space freeze”, as he understands. Make sure the theater rooms are not theater rooms, and that the street is not the street. With Campaign TheatersSalicrú causes interference. It awakens the city from street theater, of actions in the public space of medium and large format that adapts to each city and environment, and all from an active listening process. These interferences arise from the fabric of the city itself. “It is an action that is important that it dies in itself that day. It is the way to create a trace, background, to create a memory. An impact that allows you later to communicate again with the elements that surround you differently,” he concludes.
“I work hard with the idea of fog, fumes, to enter into spaces where you just don’t perceive their limits. To create this species of nothingness. This forces you to imagine and take sides,” he says. The new action of the project Campaign Theaters_Interference 02arrives at the Grec Festival of Barcelona with the intention of converting everyday life into a great show. SO SALICRU’s good will continue to look for the non-know-what for a long time. For now, we will meet this July in the Arc de Triomphe without headphones and with our gaze well awake.
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