Moderno Prometeo

Moderno Prometeo is an intensive workshop in collaboration with the Danish art school Aarhus Produktionsskole and its Kulturentreprenør program with the aim of participating in a multidisciplinary creation based on Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein through a transhumanist vision.
The participants in the experience are the students of Kulturentreprenør, a program that promotes the social and labor inclusion of young people from different artistic disciplines. To carry out the final show, the participants will have to adopt new roles and adapt to the needs of the scene.

The creation is based on the work Shelley Frankenstein, which is subtitled The moderno Prometeo. This is a reference to the Greek myth in which a Titan steals the sacred fire from the gods to give it to humans. The myth of Prometheus has been considered to be the first notion of Transhumanism; Thanks to the control of fire, human beings obtained a power that allowed them to develop and achieve unimaginable advances until then.
With these ideas as a base, the participants, after the warm-up and group cohesion exercises, work on the most relevant elements of Frankenstein, allowing them to develop the concepts of their performance. The key points covered are:
Transhumanism: the improvement of the human condition through science and technology.
Experimentation: Doctor Frankenstein’s process of creating life, including his failed tests.
Jealousy: the envy of the creature before the human condition and all those beings that are not considered monsters.
Love: the creature is not loved by anyone, and the lack of love breeds hatred and destruction.
Society: the creature’s frustration comes from its lack of acceptance, from how society turns its back on everything it considers different or abnormal.

Once the concepts are established, the participants are divided into working groups and begin to develop the actions and scenes. Always promoting total creative freedom, the exploration of concepts is promoted beyond making a literal adaptation of the novel.

The action begins in one of the basements of the Epic Foundation, where a silent film is shown that reveals the tragedy of Doctor Frankenstein: one given night, a thief broke into his house and ended up killing his wife. The Doctor swore to bring her back to life and began experimenting with animal corpses, giving them electric shocks to try to revive them. He did not take long to pass into human bodies; after various tests, including with living beings, he managed to bring his wife back from the dead.
The experiment does not seem to be entirely successful: Mrs. Frankenstein, now an undead, immediately kills the people who have reanimated her. Realizing what she has just done, she gathers up various innards and takes them to a body mass manufacturing plant to manufacture a new husband for herself.
The new monster wanders, confused, through a booing crowd. The only person who seems not to be scared by his presence is a girl sitting by a lake. Unfortunately, when he approaches her, the girl ends up falling and drowning. Immediately afterwards, an enraged crowd enters, chasing him with torches, calling him a murderer and taking the inert body of the girl to celebrate her funeral.
Once the girl has been buried, Doctor Frankenstein and her wife arrive, who bring her back to life. The girl looks at her new parents and takes her hands. The new family of the undead leaves the Foundation in the middle of a storm; A silent film poster is projected on them, just like the ones in the initial film with a closing text, or perhaps the beginning of the story itself: “To be continued”.