CAMPO: Five People, artistic collaboration at its best

Ideas of exchange and collaboration have become increasingly important for our contemporary culture. This is something beyond the obvious: you don't have to go far to see how these concepts have found their way into every imaginable aspect of everyday life. From business to education, going through sports to high art, people are collaborating with each other at unprecedented rates. Furthermore, these exchanges are happening between people of different backgrounds: cultural, educational and professional. The integration of ideas from diverging origins have come to dominate creativity and productivity and are redefining the ways we think and experience the world around us. Again, this is so obvious it is almost a cliché, and it is almost impossible to repeat these things in a way which is fresh and original. The performance Five People, by CAMPO is a rare opportunity for a playful questioning of what it means to collaborate with other people, with a different training and a different view of the world. Five artists will share a space, in a collaboration that will grow from a solo to a culminating moment where all five artists will be on stage. This performance can be seen at Festival a/d Werf from May 24 to 26 2010.