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Sculpture of entrusted power

Agency Awareness Conflict of interests Monitoring yourself Power

Time

90 min

Group size

12 people minimum

Applicable to
digital tools

NO

Difficulty

1/5

Time

90 min

Group size

12 people minimum

Applicable to digital tools

NO

Difficulty

1/5
This activity, inspired by Augusto Boal’s «Theatre of the Oppressed», aims to express conceptions of power, abuse of power and entrusted power through sculptures or statues and the active use of the participants’ bodies
Instructions
This activity, inspired by Augusto Boal’s «Theatre of the Oppressed», aims to express conceptions of power, abuse of power and entrusted power through sculptures or statues and the active use of the participants’ bodies
Instruction

THEORY OF REFERENCE

call to refl-action 3

GOALS

  • Clarifying personal (or collective) conceptions of use of power, abuse of power and entrusted power
  • Experiencing how easily the balances of power can change even in a daily life situation

AGE OF PARTICIPANTS

15 years old

METHODS

Theatrical approach

EQUIPEMENT

Not needed

MATERIALS

Not provided

ESCAPE GAME

Not provided
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Instructions

  • Divide the participants into groups and make them choose a leader, who will have the delegated power of making the sculptures (5 min)
  • The leader has to imagine scenes of ‘power’ or abuse of ‘entrusted power’ without explaining to the others. This could be suggested with an example as follows: ‘Try to remember an everyday situation you have seen, which struck you as racist or hostile to foreigners’
  • Now the leader, in silence, starts to shape the others’ bodies into a sculpture trying to represent that situation of power. It is possible to shape their postures, gestures and even expressions. Other members of the group become the audience (5 min)
  • When the sculpture is ready, the audience is invited to move around it, in order to observe all the details of the statues.
  • It is necessary to have a sculpture session group by group and not simultaneously (5 min)
  • After taking a moment of observation, every person involved in the sculpture can change one thing (e.g. a gesture, a position or a facial expression) to turn the represented situation into a positive one
  • Start a discussion among the audience by asking questions like:
    • What do you think the initial statue represented?
    • In your opinion, what was the transformation between the first and the final statue?
    • Now ask questions to the statues: How did you feel? In your opinion, what was the meaning of the statue? Have you ever actually experienced the situation staged?
    • When the first group has finished, the activity can be repeated with the other groups and so on
NB: In case the exercise triggers strong feelings in the participants, be prepared to start a discussion about emotions and experiences “

POSSIBILE VARIATION

You can also create a collective sculpture made by the whole group, representing an allegory of a non-violent fight against abuse of delegated power. There is no longer a sculptor, so the statue will be created by all participants. At the end, ask everyone to comment on the sculpture

DIGITAL TOOLS

not provided
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