Fundación Épica La Fura dels Baus presents Workshop#19 – Neurotransmitters held from April 24 to May 7, 2023 at the Old CACI Factory in Badalona and the new Foundation headquarters located in the Port of Badalona.
The initiative’s main objective is horizontal collaboration between science, art and technology, involving researchers, creatives and technologists in equal parts. The result, a great collective experiment based on the performing arts that contributes to research, fosters critical thinking in society and puts reflection on plausible futures on the table.
Workshop#19 – Neurotransmitters was born from the dialogue between the entity and research groups dedicated to the study of Neurotransmitters.
“Neurotransmitters are the chemical messengers of our body. They carry messages through a dense network of nerves that communicate neurons with other neurons, with muscle cells or with glands. These messages allow us to move our limbs, feel, keep our heartbeat and receive and respond to all the information our body receives from other internal parts and from our environment.”
The knowledge of this matter, treated by researchers from different points of view, including pharmacology, musicology, neuroscience or biosemiotics, will be made available to the creative participants in the project: on the one hand, as inspiration, and on the other, in the form of a challenge, objective and/or task, or as a practical experiment in which both creatives and the public can play a leading role.
All this with the aim of presenting to the invited audience a final sample as a result of this art-science collaboration developed during two intense weeks of collective work.
