La Brossa presents the first festival ‘Exorcisms. Heritage and performativity ‘and the ghosts of Joan Brossa – Joan Brossa Foundation appear

“If you want to be very successful, make a shit festival that will go there all flies”

Last weekend, January 25 and 26, a unique event took place in La Brossa: a congregation of artists who were dedicated to exorcifying and invoking the material and immaterial heritage of Joan Brossa. It was a success of the public, of criticism and, most important of all, we had a great time.

Exorcisms. Heritage and performativity It is a cross -cutting project of the junk that is planning to work from the indiscipline and without hierarchies between different arts to make available to contemporary creation the material and intangible heritage of Joan Brossa. So we have encouraged a way to do Brossian: the gesture and the radical attitude towards artistic creation.

The guest artists were challenged to read the work of Brossa, which they could take, through the staging, performance or action. From the scene, visual arts, sound art or experimental poetry, artists have drawn a wide range of imaginaries and impact very different for an audience that has dared to get carried away by the fascinating one And, sometimes, maybe irreverent.

Juana Dolores Who says fire, Flame says; the ghost recreations of The detectives; the cabaret ofAlba Rihe; the comedy of extending of Júlia Barbany and Núria Coromines; the sound pieces from the poems object of Brossa by William Llotje; the centaur karaoke Jaume Clotet and, finally, the night of vigil officiated by Oriol Sauleda and Arnau Musachs (with the collaboration ofEnric Casassas) They finished setting up a complete, sometimes unlikely weekend, with ultratomb visits and unique energies. Marta Peackers and Raül Refree They are also part of this program, although we saw it in November and the other, until June, we will not know what it proposes.

Oriol Puig Tauléfrom Cloud, makes one detailed He declares “what I am clear about is that this cycle of exorcisms should be programmed every year, with different artists”. His wishes are orders and we start working on it.