Biography

FUSTA marks the inaugural collaboration between Pau Arissa Caellas and Núria Planes Llull, two creators whose practices converge at the intersection of immersive performances and social critique.

Pau Arissa brings a background in humanities and stage direction. His career is defined by high-level artistic leadership, notably as the coordinator of the contemporary art festival Ex Abrupto and founder of the theatre company Tres Panys. His practice seamlessly integrates dramaturgy and production, with a focus on large-scale immersive performances that bridge traditional culture and contemporary stagecraft.

Núria Planes Llull is an internationally recognised stage creator and video artist spanning major festivals like FiraTàrrega and GREC Festival Barcelona. Her work is deeply rooted in an ecofeminist perspective, critiquing capitalist structures through site-specific and socially-engaged performance. With a background in Physical Theatre and Art Therapy, she often co-creates with communities to address complex political themes.

Together in FUSTA, they unite Pau’s expertise in immersive coordination, directions and dramaturgy with Núria’s artivism and political vision.

Artistic project

FUSTA is an immersive, night-time encounter set within the forest, exploring the intersection of climate collapse and rural depopulation. It moves beyond theory to confront an uncomfortable truth: the looming end of the high-energy era. We stand at a historical turning point where the depletion of resources and biodiversity loss are no longer hypotheses, but our current reality.

Experts suggest that within a century, survival will require us to live much like our ancestors did—with less energy, less production, and a radical dependence on the land. People moving away from the countryside has cut us off from the skills we will need in the future. When a village fades, we lose more than people; we lose communal rituals, languages, and the practical wisdom of the territory.

FUSTA acts as an ecofeminist and degrowth-inspired intervention, focusing on the "intangible heritage" slipping away with the elderly: folk songs, healing plants, the rhythmic swing of the sickle, and the specific calls that gather a herd through the fog. It is a reflection on the quiet tragedy of what vanishes when a generation dies—and a call to reclaim the vital, land-based skills essential for a dignified, self-sufficient future.

Format: perfomance-installation

Size of audience: 90 people in groups of 10 

Specific location: forest, park

Timing/duration: night-time set within the forest of 60 minutes