SOLASTALGIA

In 2005, the Australian natural philosopher Glenn Albrecht invented the term "solastalgia". It is composed of the Latin term for comfort (solacium) and the Greek root (algia), which stands for illness and suffering. Unlike nostalgia, which refers to dimensions distant in space and time, solastalgia refers to the pain one experiences at the moment of realizing that the space one inhabits, the place one loves, is under attack. It denotes the silent pain and the impossibility of mourning.

Where do we actually mourn this world that is disappearing right now before our eyes? What does our knowledge of this disappearance do to us as we observe the melting of glaciers, the acidification of the seas, the silencing of the skies and the forests by the absence of flocks of birds and insects? What does this acoustic change around us mean and where is this world actually being buried? Where is its totem, its place of mourning? What if there was a place where we could bury this world? And what if the place we mourn is the very place we mourn for?

The artistic team goes searching for places that are endangered together with the actors.