6th International Festival and Conference at the Theatre Academy Helsinki

The Bubble 24th-27th May 2017 

Bubbles are not kindly regarded in these days. They are associated with many of our current world’s issues: social injustice, a lack of solidarity, rising prices, polluted water, the election of Donald Trump. Our world bubbles, the earth is a bubble, and we are in crisis. However, there is the aesthetic and life-preserving potential of the bubble: it is an equally rich metaphor for isolation and ignorance as it is for nurturance, safety and protection, and even more so for perfection and effervescence. A multitude of bubbles might merge, expand, form a foam, or collide, burst and disappear.

For this year�s LAPSody, we invite experts and contributors from all field to join The Bubble. Come explore the political, social, environmental, philosophical, scientific and performative potential of the bubble as a discursive and physical phenomenon.

We especially welcome proposals featuring non-conventional forms of presentation, and are happy to facilitate these, for example lecture installations, post-truth performances, site specific discussions, phlegmatic workshops and one-on-one-situations.

LAPSody festival & conference will be taking place in the Theatre Academy Helsinki as well at different outdoor and indoor sites around the city of Helsinki. Other venues of LAPSody are currently being negotiated and will be announced in the beginning of the year 2017. 

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