Pallas Projects - Outlandish Theatre— ‘A Theatre of Ruins’ document launch and ‘1978’ screening

Outlandish Theatre— ‘A Theatre of Ruins’ document launch and ‘1978’ screening

Pallas Projects and Outlandish Theatre are pleased to present the premiere screening of absurdist opinion documentary film '1978' and the launch of Maud Hendricks' art document 'A Theatre of Ruins' with guest speaker Laura Hopes.

In 'A Theatre of Ruins', Maud Hendricks, artist and performance maker, philosophises what theatre is for and for whom. She puts her ideas within the context of the Sublime Everyday and the Anthropocene. Dublin 8 provides the natural scenography and the social and physical ruins of Dublin 8 the dramaturgy. In Maud's practice community participants and artists express their lived experiences, their radical truths, in experimental performances.

'A Theatre of Ruins' is a provocation to other artists to inhabit institutional spaces to create speculative fabulations, with possibilities for change.

Maud meets artists she likes and easily connects with, Marwa Arsanios, Bart Capelle, Teja Reba, Dylan Tighe, Lian Bell and Bara Kolenc; she discovers 1978 is their common birth year. Is this a coincidence?

'1978' is an absurdist opinion documentary, a random act of art, an open and possibly unanswerable question to the year Maud Hendricks was born in. "It's an autobiographical search for existential meaning when approaching my fifth decade and when civic structures seem to be fast-forwarding towards a new world (dis)order."

With three artists Lian Bell, Bara Kolenc and Dylan Tighe, this film touches the skin of a year: the air that we breathe, the eyes we meet, the food we taste, the zeitgeist, social and cultural conditioning, the natural environment, the materiality we first connect with, the ads, the radio stations and the broadcasters, the wars that are happening.

This film is unconventional nonsense, with improbable thought connections making sense. It will leave you wondering about your own entry year into this earthly paradigm.

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Funded by the Arts Council | An Chomhairle Ealaíon and Dublin City Council. Supported by Pallas Projects/Studios.