In a public square, the audience, wearing headphones, moves through the space answering simple questions with wordless gestures. As the performance evolves, Dominio Público becomes at once a three-dimensional mapping of societal structures and an embodied exploration of individual agency and collective power.
Seen and celebrated over the past decade in Barcelona, Rio de Janeiro, London, and Tokyo, Dominio Público by award-winning Spanish artist Roger Bernat made its US premiere in Georgetown University’s Red Square, presented by The Lab and the Cultural Office of the Embassy of Spain.
For this premiere, Bernat, DC community members, and GU students collaborated to customize Dominio Público for Washington, DC, building a communal ritual that uses game-like structures to bring to life the nature and ramifications of our assigned roles.
