The performance addresses the crisis of being an object of entertainment and the need to abandon the imposed image and social category. Observing this figure, devoted to entertainment within an intimate sphere, aims to provoke questions about failure through posthumor. It is essential that the performance space conveys the sensation of a “caged” observation — that is, someone watching another who cannot choose to stop being observed.

JÚLIA BARBANY ARIMANY
1994, Granollers

Performer and creator whose work explores irony and the limits of performativity, which she terms “soft.” She holds a degree in Physical Theatre from the Institut del Teatre de Barcelona, has completed the master’s program Live Art and Performance Studies at the Theatre Academy of Helsinki, and the Master’s in Comparative Studies of Literature, Art, and Thought at UPF.

She is a member of the collective Las Huecas, with whom she has toured the peninsula presenting the pieces Aquellas que no deben morir and De l’amistat. In 2019, she presented the performative lecture Official Presentation of the Gadgets for Our Salvation, and in 2022 the piece Diversión Obligatoria as an artist-in-residence at Graner, Center for Dance and Live Arts Creation.

Since then, she has combined her career as a stage director with creating performances in various spaces, including: Yo y Yo y Yo (CCCB), El olor de tu pelo (Crea l’H - Sociedad 0), Sala Combo: The Return (Fundació Tàpies), OKey Con Ance (Sâlmon), and Nit de St. Joan (La Innita + MACBA).

She is currently part of the educational team at MACBA, developing workshops related to performance, has been selected for the current edition of Barcelona Producció at La Capella, and is an artist-in-residence at the arts space Roca Umbert.