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El Conde de Torrefiel places the audience in a “natural”, open-air setting, in an environment suitable for the contemplation of a “subtitled” and captioned landscape, augmented by an LED screen displaying thoughts, questions, perspectives and revelations. The screen translates into words what nature has to say to humans today. The landscape fulfils all the elements of a play: it is the scenography, the light and sound, the narrator and the main character. A poetic operation that rotates the audience’s viewpoint by 180° so as to imagine how Nature might perceive humans. The text draws attention to the contradictions in the relationship between humans and their original source, through a discourse whose tone is part-divinatory and part-dreamlike, alternating between history and fiction, and inviting the audience on a voyage through the different eras of our world. It is a collective reading of the landscape that sheds light on the imperceptible and on some of the fictions that underpin our view of nature.



Credits
I have no name
by El Conde de Torrefiel

Project and Production: El Conde de Torrefiel, Théâtre Vidy-Lausanne 

Creation: May 2023



Shared Landscapes is a project by Caroline Barneaud and Stefan Kaegi, bringing together seven artistic works by Chiara Bersani and Marco D’Agostin, El Conde de Torrefiel, Sofia Dias and Vítor Roriz, Begüm Erciyas and Daniel Kötter, Stefan Kaegi, Ari Benjamin and Émilie Rousset, for a day of performative land art.



A Performing Landscape project – Production:
Rimini Apparat, Théâtre Vidy-Lausanne, Bunker and Mladi Levi Festival, Culturgest, Festival d’Avignon, Tangente St. Pölten – Festival für Gegenwartskultur, Temporada Alta, Zona K and Piccolo Teatro di Milano Teatro d’Europa, and co-funded by the European Union. With the Berliner Festspiele.