FORECASTING
Stratagéme Theatre Company

Venue: Tranzit House
In EN with RO, HU surtitles

FORECASTING is based on a collection of amateur videos taken from the largest video sharing website: YouTube. The piece delves into the process of watching videos by reducing it to its essential: a body and a screen. On an empty stage, a performer manipulates a laptop showing  hundreds of videos posted by YouTube amateurs: food lovers, gun fans, fitness buffs, DIY enthusiasts, gardeners, as well as contemplative walks, intimate confessions and playful moments with pets. Video images have been selected to match the human scale, allowing the screen to be used as both a mask and an extension of the performer, who also complements the videos with her voice, further blurring the limits between herself and the incessant flow of the Web. Through this hybrid experience FORECASTING gradually turns into a story of all stories, an on-stage presentation of our on-line lives, a poetic sketch of the influence that digital tools play in the narration of the Self and the collective construction of the Imaginary.

Authors: Giuseppe Chico et Barbara Matijević
Performed by Barbara Matijević
Video: Giuseppe Chico
Sound: Viktor Krasnić
Patch Max: Niccolo Gallio
Production: Kaaitheater (Brussels)
Co-production: UOVO (Milan)
Executive producer: 1er stratagème and De facto
Supported by DRAC Ile de France – Croatian Ministry of Culture – the City of Zagreb – the French Institute – Beaumarchais SACD association – PACT Zollverein (Essen) and Caos/Festival Terni (residency program).
Photo credits: Yelena Remetin

Prémiere: 5 march 2011 in to the Festival Performatik, Kaaitheater / Bruxelles (Belgium)
Duration: 45 minutes

With the support of Teatroskop – regional programme for performing arts initiated by French Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs, French Ministry of Culture and Institut français Paris.