The second in a series of participatory events centered on personal and collective introspection, led by the urban shaman and coacher I.G. – the alter ego of artist Itzik Giuli. In a four-chapter act that consists of sound work, guided meditation, storytelling, and video installation, Giuli adopts the fictional figure of I.G. and delves into today’s retreat culture and the quest for self-realization and mind expanding. He conjures an encounter of the sensory, personal, imaginary, and hidden: an action that calls for inner arousal and active participatory experience.
Retreatment2 is an attempt to establish an “urban retreat” while examining theatre as a transformative space informed by I.G.’s philosophy. The mysterious shaman coined the term “cosmo-refugeehood” – a contemporary human experience of living in a state of disconnection from one’s habitat. Cosmo-refugees are individuals who drift through the world in a state of perpetual exile/refugeehood, trying to find something to connect with. The work invites us to tap into the contemporary savage, who uses the machines of progress to experience a sensory overload, and surrender to a wide ecosystem that merges man, nature, and technology.
The event involves moving between theatre spaces with wireless headphones. There may be illuminating lights.
