2023 – ILLUSION / EAGERNESS

*The word that heralds the theme of this edition carries multiple meanings in Catalan; in English there is no word that encompasses all the different meanings, so it has been translated into two words.

The theme of the tenth edition of the A Cel Obert festival, corresponding to the year 2023, is illusion / eagerness.

An illusion is the distorted perception of reality, be it due to a physical component or a product of the imagination, results in a fictitious event shaped by a mixture of a lack of personal lucidity and an uncontrolled emotional state.

Eagerness as a feeling is the overwhelming, ungovernable, uncontainable and wild hope we feel when we want to achieve a dream.

Illusion as an optical effect is, simply, the false representation of a hidden truth that we only perceive in secret and never manifests itself as real.

ILLUSION

1a

(1): a misleading image presented to the vision : OPTICAL ILLUSION

(2): something that deceives or misleads intellectually

b

(1): perception of something objectively existing in such a way as to cause misinterpretation of its actual nature

(2): HALLUCINATION

(3): a pattern capable of reversible perspective

“Illusion.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/illusion. Accessed 30 Mar. 2023.

 

EAGERNESS

The state of wanting to do or have something very much, especially something interesting or enjoyable.

“Eagerness.” Cambridge Dictionary, Cambridge University Press, https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/eagerness. Accessed 30 Mar. 2023.

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CINTA
DANZA DE ENGAÑOS: LA MAGIA DE LA DUALIDAD
EBRERINT
ECHAR RAÍCES
ELS PATIS PERDUTS DE TORTOSA
ESTIRA-T
FLORA-SION
IL·LUDOSCOPIS
INTERFERÈNCIA
IRIS
LA IL·LUSFERA
LA ILUSIÓN DE ESTAR EN UN DIBUJO
MERMA
MURAL DEL PATI DEL PALAU CAPMANY
OCULUS
PAISAJE IMPOSIBLE
PLASTIC MARBLES
POU CEC, POU SEC
SENTS IL·LUSIÓ?
SOMBRAS EXTENDIDAS
THROUGH THE ILLUSION
TRASVER