The Mask: Being Another
Adrià Pujol Cruells and Joan Font Pujol
Festivity and Power
Debate
The anthropologist and writer Adrià Pujol Cruells talks with theater director Joan Font Pujol, founder of the theater group Comediants, about Carnival as a space for collective imagination and self-reflection.
In studies such as Entre el poder i la màscara (with Andrés Antebi, Temes d'etnologia de Catalunya, 2008) or Ciudad, fiesta y poder (LiminaR, 2006), Pujol has reflected on popular festivals as a primordial tool of expression and social action. The festival gathers energies and offers society the opportunity to put itself on stage, to become protagonist and spectator of a ritual with a transforming vocation. Joan Font Pujol has incorporated these elements of folklore and theatricality linked to Catalan tradition, as well as street performances and the scenic and expressive possibilities of masks, into his theater creations and operas. What forms of general sociability and cultural expressions do popular celebrations generate? Do they still retain their subversive capacity today?
The conversation is moderated by Bernat Reher, theater expert.
Moderators: Bernat Reher
Participants: Adrià Pujol Cruells, Joan Font i Pujol
This activity is part of The Mask Never Lies, The Mask: Being Another
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Adrià Pujol Cruells and Joan Font Pujol
Festivity and Power
What forms of general sociability do popular celebrations have? Do they still retain their subversive capacity today? The anthropologist and writer Adrià Pujol Cruells talks with theater director Joan Font Pujol, founder of the theater group Comediants, about Carnival as a space for collective imagination and self-reflection.
