Ferida lluminosa

Not so long ago, at night the world was dark. It was illuminated by the stars, the moon, the bonfires. Then, the candles and the oil lamps, dim and trembling lights that filled the night with shadows and burning. Later, streetlights along the streets, with oil or gas lights, and the night of the cities filled with small bright spots, like a fallen sky. Then, the light bulbs, lamps, lanterns, ceiling lamps, car headlights, theatre spotlights, fluorescent lights inside refrigerators, school classrooms, subway corridors, hospital rooms, and the night was filled with small suns and insolent adjustable moons. And the cathode rays, and the LEDs, and the LCD, and the Full HD, and the 4K resolution, and the Retina Display, which filled the world with bright surfaces and glowing images, and the night turned into incandescent darkness.

Ferida lluminosa [Light Wound] is a performative conference that deals with the history of artificial light from literary, philosophical, historical and technological references. It also examines the role of electric light in the International Exhibition held at Montjuïc in 1929, and explores the relationship between the introduction of electric lighting and current wireless technologies and 24/7 culture.

This show is part of Unlock The City, a cultural regeneration project aimed at developing an integrated working method that combines scientific and design-oriented technical research with theatrical practice, making it a tool to trigger sustainable development processes to the post-pandemic city.

This project is part of the Europa Creativa