Maria Lucia Cruz Correia: VOICE OF NATURE: TRIAL (Portugal, Belgium)

Maria Lucia Cruz Correia has been collaborating with the Mladi levi festival and Bunker for several years through the Imagine 2020 network, which has grown over the years from a network that sought to connect ecology and art with the common goal of raising awareness about climate change into a network that seeks to think in a more intersectional way, and – despite focusing on environment – is trying to think better (or less terrible) future through art, as well as to act. Cruz Correia’s work is not only located at the intersection of activism and art, but also extends to the fields of philosophy, ritual practices, intervention …

Voices of Nature: the Trial is the result of a long research process in which the artist did not remain an observer, nor did she attempt to maintain distance, but delved into struggle and suffering. This performance does not allow the audience the comfort of an observer – they become participants in a performance which is openly trying to establish ecocide as a crime and tries to introduce a different understanding of nature. Cruz Correia asks herself how to transform a mountain or a river into a legal entity, how to grant personhood to non‑humans? Instead of conventional judgements, she experiments with restorative justice practices and transformative processes. The ecocide is still not recognized as a crime in most countries and in international law.

Concept and direction: Maria Lucia Cruz Correia
Dramaturgy: Ingrid Vranken
Performance: Caroline Daish
Systemic Constellation Navigator: Luea Ritter
Research contribution: Sébastien Hendrickx
Sound Design: Joao Bento
Light Design: Vinny Jones
Video: Mark Požlep
Advise: Jeroen Peeters, Starhawk
Costume Design: Anne-Catherine Kunz
Legal fact checking: Hendrik Schoukens, Juan Auz
Research documentation: Mark Požlep, Hana Vodeb
Restorative Justice collaborator: Brunilda Pali
Intern: Maíra Wiener
Technician: Alain Decoen
Producer: Tineke de Meyer
Co-Production: Vooruit, Kaaitheater, Bunker, Ljubljana, Workspacebrussels, Het TheaterFestival, t-heater & Circuit X (Roel Verniers Prijs 2017)
Produced by: FoAM
Residency and research: No Lugar, Center for Creative Ecologies /Tj Demos, Artsadmin, BUDA kunstcentrum, WP Zimmer
With the support of: Flemish Community, Imagine 2020, EU – program Ustvarjalna Evropa Kultura, Javni sklad za kulturne dejavnosti
Thanks to: Sarayaku community, UDAPT, TJ Demos, Polly Higgins, Steven Desanghere, Juliane von Crailsheim, Femke Widekop, Nina Vurdelja, coyote, Monika Meysmans, Ivo Aertsen, KU Leuven Institute of, Criminology (LINC).

120 minutes

The performance is in English.

Foto: Mark Požlep, Stephanie Vandevelde

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