01.06. at 15.00
Liberty Square
WORLD MAP – SMILE
Joan Baixas Company & Students from the performing arts universities participating at the Tallinn Treff Festival
“WORLD MAP – SMILE” is a collective performance involving students and artists from a range of disciplines, as a visual theatre course final project. It is a workshop that begins with common questions and ends with personal answers.
What is our vision of the world?
What is your vision of the world?
We explore the big ideas with humour.
A Mapamundi (“world map”) is an image of the world with a specific vision of one particular aspect: the territory, the climate, the vegetation, the politics, the economy, or even happiness, health, poverty or death. It is an image of the world that is a snapshot of a global entity. Mapamundis can also be images of globality, such as the Buddhist Mandala, the Maya Calendar, the Gerona Tapestry of Creation, the Australian Songs of the Dreamtime, The Renaissance Theatre of Memory or the more contemporary Google Earth, the Inmarsat satellite network, the Wall Street Stock Exchange screens or just the letters www.
With the “World Map – Smile” Joan Baixas aims to create a myriad of world maps; personal world maps with one vision – humour. The performance is a wonderful, healthy and refreshing vision of His Majesty King Humour, along with his courtiers: Mockery, Grotesque and Laughter.
