Marc Caellas

Marc Caellas (Barcelona, 1974) is a theatre director, writer and curator of cultural proposals that are a hybrid of literature, stage and contemporary art.

Marc published the chronicle books Carcelona (Melusina, 2011), Caracaos (Melusina, 2015), Drogotá (Planeta, 2017) and the essay Teatro del bueno (Teatron tinta, 2015).

He writes regularly for El Estado Mental, Altaïr Magazine, supplement Lecturas (El Tiempo), supplement Encuentros (Diari de Tarragona).

Some of his plays take place in public spaces. With his tour performances, he aims to work on a change of perspective to show that the structure and relationships of the things we see or happen in theatre are also occurring in intricately intertwined forms in the urban environment. A stage may not be necessary for his plays because he believes that the act of going out into the city and feeling things with his body, seeing things and hearing things itself, be theatre. He thinks about how he could share with others the feelings he gets when he walks in the city.

Marc also created many pieces of documentary theater as El alma griega, a live travel magazine (Barcelona, 2018), El perico tumba la paloma (Barcelona, 2016), a scenic creation on the coca plant and its derivatives; Cuerpo Serrano, an artistic intervention at nyamnyam in the cycle Todo lo que me gusta es inmoral, ilegal o engorda (Barcelona, 2015); and Guiris Go Home, a tirade against the tourism industry (Barcelona, 2015).

With Esteban Feune de Colombi, they created in Bogotá in 2011 the company La Soledad, focused on itinerant, performance and site-specific scenic proposals. The ideas and the production of each project belongs to both: Caellas directs, Feune de Colombi acts.

Marc and Esteban turned the novel The Walk, by Swiss Robert Walser, in a walking play that they have been representing since 2012 in the streets of Barcelona, Bogota, Buenos Aires, Mexico City, Havana, Madrid, Mallorca, Montevideo, San Pablo and Terrassa, in festivals such as Fringe (Madrid), TNT (Terrassa), Filba (Buenos Aires) or Kosmópolis (Barcelona), along with institutions such as Museo Universitario del Chopo (México), Es Baluard (España) or Museo de Bellas Artes (Argentina).

Marc cured several cycles or encounters that hybridize literature, scene and contemporary art as Ahí está: 10 años de artes vivas at the MUSAC (2015); El estómago de los escritores, Kosmópolis (2015-16) and No todo va a ser hablar, Caixaforum (2016).