Arpentage

Education (2023)

Staging
of a fictional

krilp session

around an electronic campfire

Credits

Artistic Direction:
Ketty Ghnassia and Timo Krstin

By and with:
Members of the krilp collective

Critical teachers collectiv: Noah Engweiler, Milena Schütz, Nuria Honauer, Florence Vögeli;
Lukas Kubik

Set Design and Costumes:
Maude Villiumier

Production Management:
Lukas Kubik

Supported by:
City of Zurich Culture, Migros Kulturprozent, Cassinelli-Vogel Foundation, Ernst Göhner Foundation, Corymbo Foundation

A production of cie la mêlée in co-production with Konzeptbüro, Rote Fabrik, and in cooperation with Theater Neumarkt

Special thanks to Elisabeth Fritsch and Fynn Malte Schmidt and the « Adventurestore » project for lending their scenography

About the process-based theatre work ARPENTAGE

Arpentage — roughly translated as « surveying » or « mapping » — is a practice that combines the proletarian reading circle with political action. It originated within the socialist movement in France, where workers’ associations and trade unions were looking for ways to educate themselves politically together without slipping into academic inertia. Reading was meant to function as empowerment at the same time: a tool for shaping political reality.