Bouazizi- Insectotropics

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Bouazizi is the second Insectotròpic's show, a work that combines a mix of live painting, veejing, live music and acting.

Following their version of the classic tale by Grimm and Perroult ‘La Caputxeta Galac- tica’ [Galactic Red Riding Hood] the Insectotròpics re-experiment with their unique ar- tistic language for ‘Bouazizi’ - a fusion of theatre, music and the visual arts. An on-going dialogue between technology and plasticity moves between pre-recording and live im- provisation, a mix between documentary and fiction, a world of dream and mythologi- cal dimensions which takes us to the unconventional corners of the common imagina- tion.
‘Bouazizi’, the man who everyone has heard of but who no one knows his name. In- sectotròpics present a poetic journey freely inspired by the life and death of Mohamed Bouazizi, a young street vendor, suffocated by mistreatment from police and economic hardship, who on 17 December 2010 publicly set himself alight. A totally unexpected event caused his gesture to create a legend for millions of people, igniting the “Arab Spring.”
‘Bouazizi’ is a story about the power of the people against The Power, about the degree of power an individual holds with respect to the system. A story that could be ours. Maybe it will be soon...
R.I.P. Mohamed Bouazizi.