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Community Participation on the stage of Hansaebong Dure
(Fernando Garcia Dory - Idea sketch drawn by the artist for Lament of the Newt, a collective performance in collaboration with DureNale from Hansaebong Dure)
During the period of the 2016 Gwangju biennale, the rice field in the rim of a natural reserve known as the Hansaebong Dure will be transformed into a theater stage. The title of this playwright is called Lament of the Newt and it is scheduled to be presented on September 3rd through September 4th, just after the opening of the 2016 Gwangju Biennale.
The schedule for the theater is as follows:
September 3rd (Saturday) 6:30pm ~ 7:30pm
September 4th (Sunday) 4:30pm ~ 5:30pm
This theatrical performance which aims to reconnect Gwangju city with its ecosystemic flows and environmental questions is a project led by Fernando Garcia Dory who participated in the dOCUMENTA 13 in Kassel (2012), Whitechapel Gallery in London (2013), ARCO Art Fair in Madrid (2014), the 14th Istanbul Biennale and much more. Fernando Garcia Dory has been vising Hansaebond Dure and other regions of the Gwangju city to research about socio-ecological struggles and the urban development models while exploring the existing political support structures in Gwangju.
Fernando Garcia Dory, participating artist of the 2016 Gwangju Biennale, was sponsored through the Programme for the Internationalisation of Spanish Culture (PICE), under the Mobility grants awarded by the state company Acción Cultural Española (AC/E).
Local residents of the Hansaebond Dure will also be part of the cast for this puppet theater and 50 participants have been engaging with a range of theatre and performance practices since the 8th of July in order to practice their improvisation and acting skills. Their next theater lesson is scheduled to be from 7pm to 9pm on July 22nd with more workshops to follow in the next month.