Following its appearances at EXIT, Sea Star and Boom Festival, EMERGENCY EXIT brought its blend of art, music and environmental activism to Barcelona on 24 September. Presented as part of La Mercè, the city’s largest annual festival, the immersive performance reached an audience of more than 25,000 people. This year’s edition of the festival, known as the “festival of festivals”, ran from 23 to 27 September, with artistic and cultural events taking place across the city.
In Barcelona, EMERGENCY EXIT offered audiences an extraordinary immersive experience combining music, theatre, movement, visual elements and multimedia. With no clear boundary between performers and audience, visitors became part of the performance and its journey through a world confronting the consequences of the environmental crisis. The music was composed by Satori, while the artistic production was developed by La Fura dels Baus, a company renowned for its innovative approach to urban and immersive theatre. The visual elements were created by Barcelona-based multimedia studio Eyesberg, which specialises in video mapping, lasers and interactive installations.
Following Barcelona, EMERGENCY EXIT will continue to bring together music, art, ecology and activism across different festival and cultural settings. At the heart of the project is the message “Peace on Earth, Peace with Earth” and a call for a more responsible relationship with the planet. Those who believe change is necessary can join the initiative by signing the Manifesto for Saving the Planet.
EMERGENCY EXIT is co-produced by the EXIT Foundation and La Fura dels Baus, in collaboration with Boom Festival, Sea Star Festival and Dutch environmental organisation Buro Nuvo. The project was created with the support of the European Union through the Creative Europe programme.
