The Prompt > Tableaux Vivants

The new workshops at the Free University of Bolzano open with a series of tableaux vivants, an art form somewhere between theatre and painting, motion and stillness, history and imagination. Residing between performance and statics, tableaux vivants have become the ideal medium for art that reflects itself and its history. Amidst the rushing of today’s fast media, this art form brings the gesture, the facial expression, the clothing and the costume sharply into focus. They showcase man as doer even when he is standing still. A “conceptual social club” called The Prompt create a series of mini-universes out of minimalist and exaggerated individuals and landscapes. The night culminates with DJs and electronic music.