Agence Nationale De Psychanalyse Urbaine at the Beirut Street Festival 2014

The Beirut Street Festival is back in 2014 for its 10th edition.

Whether you encounter some of these urban interventions by chance, or intend to follow the schedule for specific shows, the aim is to restore outdoor culture through participatory street theater and dance. Take a moment to enjoy the cosmopolitan creative artistic atmosphere in the city with the Beirut Street Fest.

The National Agency for Urban Psychoanalysis aims at “couching the cities“ to detect urban neuroses and propose appropriate therapeutic solutions. Inspired by the Situationists and”psychogeography”, it addresses the city as a “person” and seeks to define the contours of its personality throughout three steps.

The Survey
The method of investigation (to make the city speak) requires the meeting of unavoidable stakeholders of the urban life ( talk to the locals) through an investigation, a journalistic stubborn work intertwined with a long series of Situationist drifts dotted with amazing encounters… Identify the personality of the patient territory.

The Maceration
The material thus collected is then digested, analyzed and dissected in the laboratory to provide the basis for a curative approach available in four points.

Shaping
Step to be tackled during the 11th edition of the Beirut Street Festival in 2015.

Location: Ain El Mraisseh

All performances are free of charge and open to the public.

Please Note
All performances start at 5:00 p.m., and are about 35 minutes long, except for “Beirut Clown Attacks”, a promenade that lasts for two hours and starts at 4:00 p.m.