Artefactos Bascos: BATU – Bravo! Festival

Maps? Paths? Roads? Houses? Cities? The performance B A T U starts from the experimentation of the straight line and its multiplication to discover unique creations with children-artists.

Join, add, unite, group, assemble, collect and meet are some of the meanings of the verb batu in euskera, the language of the Basques. Etymologically the verb comes from bat, which means one.

B A T U is a great game of lines, paths, intersections, spaces, maps, constructions, combinations and discoveries, where creativity and play meet. A simple shape, the rectangle, invites child artists to JOIN together to create. B A T U is a collective happening for the whole family.

Artefactos Bascos is a multidisciplinary platform founded by artist, performer, art historian and graphic designer Ieltxu Ortueta. It develops scenic, graphic and performance projects, with a focus on young audiences. Artefactos Bascos thinks of the child as a partner in play and co-creator in interactive works, which move between visual arts, performance art and non-conventional performative spaces.

Non-verbal
Age recommendation: 2–8 years
Duration: approx. 50 min

Creation, performance and playing space: Ieltxu Ortueta
Sound creation: Gil Fuser
Production: Sendero Cultural / Adryela Rodrigues
Photos: Hussam Adin Hazimeh
Performance related workshop B A T U Lab. also available.

Interactive e-book to play:
https://issuu.com/artefactosbascos/docs/pt_batu_ebook