Sensus Communis is a performative project situated at the intersection of sound poetry, sound puppetry, and object theatre. The title refers to the concept of “common sense,” yet rather than appealing to rationality, the performance turns toward bodily and sensory ways of perceiving the world around us.
Sound—an inherent part of everyday life—here acquires mythic dimensions. It becomes an object of inquiry, a bearer of memory, and a source of storytelling: a material from which, and with which, even seemingly ordinary objects can be brought to life.
The production employs both contemporary and analog technologies and develops a specific form of performership and puppetry. The idea of sound puppetry gradually evolves into object theatre, unfolding the story of two enigmatic beings—operators who explore the mechanics of things that may have lost their original function in today’s world and now persist only as a melancholic trace of the past.
