Là-bas→ Pablo Alvez Artinprocess: Scaffold of the Spectacle

The performance’s name inverts the title of Foucault’s text (“Spectacle of the Scaffold”), emphasising our search for the opposite to the violence which is encompassed in exposing, representing and even comprehending (in its double sense).

Is it enough to make a spectacle the least spectacular and predictable possible? Can raw exposure – to hazard, to the ridicule – be the trick? At the end, we should still try to get rid of all the tricking… How can we just stop the editing?

Pablo Alvez Artinprocess is a Lisbon-based UK-born experimental performance artist, artist-researcher and a performance philosopher. He holds a PhD in poverty economics and is currently taking a 2nd PhD in Theatre at the University of Surrey, exploring an empowerment (rather than a power) relation between ethics and aesthetics, and more specifically establishing a dialogue between the ethics of philosopher Emmanuel Levinas and his own experiments in performance art.

His approach to performance art insists in being technically and materially poor, and usually explores a dialogue between performance and books/texts on philosophy. It attempts to remain experimental – as in precarious, unfinished, uncompromising, in constant mutation, a source of challenge and/or excitement of the unknown.

His performance “Phénoménologie de l’Éros” (2019), created during a residency at Point Éphémère (Paris), was awarded by the Gulbenkian Foundation (under its “Programa Gulbenkian Cultura”) and received production support from Kanal- Centre Pompidou (Brussels).