Theatre / beyond logic.

Initiate artistic research and cross-sectoral experimentation. Create through scientific, humanities and medical research, and collaborate with professionals from other fields. Physics, neuroscience and psychiatry often ask the same questions as art.

Bring together different forms of theatre and artistic disciplines. Perhaps we should abandon works that remain confined to a single discipline altogether. Develop a method of assembling heterogeneous elements in order to create thematic tension and open the work to multiple interpretations.

Respond not only to social and political issues, but to their deeper coexistence with psychological, spiritual, religious and magical dimensions. Never rely solely on cause and effect, logical motivation or rational thought, because the world itself does not operate according to such a simple model.

Performances based solely on causal, psychological or socio-political analysis risk becoming little more than vivid repetitions of fictional answers to the same “eternal questions”. The purpose of art is not to offer didactic conclusions, but to explore questions that only art allows us to approach.

Recognise the role artists can play beyond the boundaries of the arts: their ability to offer another perspective, propose alternative solutions and contribute to other fields. Initiate and participate in collaborations between artists and professionals from different sectors. Contribute to interdisciplinary and cross-sectoral research. Develop and encourage the synergy between art and technology, strengthening the Art-Tech sector through practice, collaboration and networking.

Do not blindly follow logic or tradition. Look for theatrical paradoxes. Reject the ordinary. Compress reality until it becomes surreal. Search for complex artistic solutions. Distort everything like a warped mirror.

Search for new models of the world and new ways of understanding how people exist within it. Invent fantastical rules and new relationships between cause and effect that allow familiar problems to be seen from unexpected perspectives. Reveal the underlying mechanism of a phenomenon rather than simply reproducing its outward appearance.

Create ambivalent, risky, overloaded and open-ended concepts rather than moralising, didactic, predetermined and self-contained worlds. If a performance can be easily put into words, it is not worth being a performance.

Through art, demonstrate that a stage image governed by unreal or unfamiliar rules can create the illusion of real, living experience — and even evoke a sense of recognition. At the same time, question the monotony, artificiality and absurdity of what we call real life. And do not forget to laugh.

“One can study the imagery of a performance, theatre literature and the other autonomous disciplines used in theatre, but visuality belongs to none of them. It strikes the spectator as the effect of the whole.” — Maaike Bleeker