la grUtesca

la grUtesca is a distillate of sound thoughts and poetical actions that dialogue creating a poetic and a provocative collage and questioning the role and the future of laugh and freedom in society.

The spontaneous laughter is a sound sculpture, ephemeral and on the move, caused by impulses that shake very hidden muscles from the human anatomy, by altering it and transform it. When we laugh, we don’t even know how our face is like. It is a cosmical transit and a loss of the gravity of the rational life; it is an experience that transits to instants of death in our daily life, and it transforms us to wiser and modest persons. Laughter liberates us. Laughter is freedom.

Laughter has as much definitions as persons are in the world; but what is in common to everyone is that laughter is sonorous. Bet Miralta and Jordi Aspa, the souls of the escarlata company, invited us to rediscover our personal relationship with the laughter and to discover if laughter, and so freedom, is nowadays in danger.

Everything happens in a space with low light. To come in, it will be necessary to create and exchange objects. Once inside, the sound experiment starts, the trip to the world of laughter begins. Helium balloon, stones, ladders, dancers, gramophones laughing, self-portraits gravitating and smoke papers dancing a waltz. 

The poetical universe deployed by la grUtesca is a very personal reinterpretation of the world of circus by escarlata, a company with 35 years of history.