El Conde de Torrefiel
Yo No Tengo Nombre

9 – 15 October

Lisboa – Estufa Fria Biennial 2025 Installation, performance

© Chloe Cohen Théâtre Vidy-Lausanne

With this work, the Catalonian theatre collective El Conde de Torrefiel expands the boundaries of theatre and installation, creating an immersive experience where sight is transformed into imagination — and imagination into responsibility. “Yo No Tengo Nombre” is a performance installation that invites the audience into an exercise of contemplation and displacement. Presented in the Estufa Fria in Lisbon, this dramatised natural landscape becomes the protagonist: it is both setting and character, narrator and silence. An LED screen appears in this space like a breach — or a caption — that transforms nature into discourse, offering the audience a language that, rather than belonging to the landscape, cuts across it.

The projected text alternates between poetic and prophetic, between fiction and reality, revealing the tense relationship between human beings and their natural origins. What stories does nature tell about us? What fictions feed our perspective on nature? “Yo No Tengo Nombre” proposes a radical reversal of the traditional position of the observer/spectator: what if it were nature that looked at us, named us, interpreted our gestures?

Displayed outside, the LED screen does not explain, it makes things appear. It does not translate, it amplifies. It is a thinking surface that vibrates in contrast with the living silence of the environment. A collective reading of the landscape that becomes a tangible political gesture, shining a light on the imperceptible and on the narrative mechanisms — cultural, historical, mythological — that shape our perception of the natural world.

Sessions

09 – 15.10.25

Estufa Fria, Lisboa

11:00, 12:30, 15:00, 17:30
Creation
El Conde de Torrefiel
Audiovisual setup in Lisbon
Balaclava Noir
Production
Théâtre Vidy-Lausanne / Projeto Paysages partagés
Co-production
Rimini Apparat, Théâtre Vidy-Lausanne, Bunker and Mladi Levi Festival, Culturgest, Festival d’Avignon, Tangente St. Pölten - Festival für Gegenwartskultur, Temporada Alta, Zona K and Piccolo Teatro di Milano Teatro d’Europa, and co-financed by the European Union
Duration and age rating
35 min. per activation, M/6
Language
Portuguese, English
Obs.
Sessions at 11h00 (PT), 12h30 (PT), 15h00 (ENG), 17h30 (PT).

Entry with a ticket to the Estufa Fria de Lisboa.
Ticket office on site: General admission: €3.60 / Students: €1.80

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