CORPO INSURRECTO 3.0: The Robo-Proletariat

Employing
La Pocha Nostra's trademark “robo-baroque” aesthetic, cyborg-kitsch and acid humour, Corpo Insurrecto 3.0: The Robo Proletariat
is LPN's newest experiment in “corporeal transformations.” Using this format, the
ritual presentation of live art and live language, Corpo Insurrecto samples both new work and performance classics,
addressing the current global culture of far right isolationism, xenophobia,
the violence of organized crime and a broken economy and how these factors
impact on the human body.

As in most Pocha projects, audience members are invited to participate in this
bizarre experiment. They will be invited to collaborate as we incarnate “the dreams and
nightmares of our current times,” and to help the performers re-imagine new iconography
by intervening the performance with their own bodies in dialogue with the
performers. Through this, LPN will invoke a “wonderfully clumsy but
efficient form of radical democratic practice.” The revelation of the
process, the in situ search for new images and formats, becomes the actual
project.

WITHIN CORPO INSURRECTO, LPN EXAMINES:

What is X-treme when everything is extreme?

• Is
  audience participation relevant when pop culture is constantly asking us to
  participate in meaningless consumerism, and every new technological gadget is
  asking us to “talk
  back”? And
  whom do we talk back to?

• How can we remain open, original, porous, funny, critical, without falling to
  post-ironic jadedness or becoming one more “packaged product” for international festivals?

Authors: La
Pocha Nostra (Guillermo Gomez-Peña, Erica Mott, Dani d'Emilia);

Production and
organisation: City of Women and La Pocha Nostra; In collaboration with: Old
Power Station – Elektro Ljubljana.
Supported by: EU Culture, U.S. Embassy Ljubljana

Price: € 7, € 5 (students and pensioners upon
submission of an identity card, and self-employed in culture), unemployed free
entry.