11th edition of El KONVENT at l’ANTIC
From 1 to 4 October 2026, El Konvent a l’Antic is back. On this occasion, two companies will present their shows back-to-back in a single session. First up is Subterrània (live set) by Erik Forsberg, followed by dissonant skies by the Lebanese artists ghinwa daher i ghenwa abou fayad.
Erik Forsberg – Subterrània (live set)
Against all odds, the most counter-cultural underground scene in Barcelona enjoyed a resurgence during the coronavirus pandemic, when fear of contagion and health restrictions made it even more difficult to get together and dance to electronic music. Could the phenomenon of clandestine parties during the pandemic serve as a vantage point from where to rethink what the concept of health means to us?
Subterrània is the live performance of a testimonial symphony that mixes dozens of voices from the worlds of nightlife and healthcare and envelops them in sounds and lights inspired by hospital and party environments in order to question how we as a society visualise and imagine the concept of health.
Erik Forsberg is a performance artist whose main interest is the exploration of underground culture through the poetics of the real. Between 2021 and 2023 he co-directed the project Pupilas pintaban mis sábanas, centered on drug use, medicine and counterculture in Barcelona between the 70s-90s and present times, using the real testimonies of people who lived through those years. The project resulted in two stage pieces: Cheli (Antic Teatre, CorralitoxTNT) and Teresa (Fundació Joan Brossa, Grec). Currently working on a stage adaptation of the novel Cavalls salvatges, Erik has previously worked as an attending physician for drug users living with HIV.
imatge: Erik Forsberg
Direction, dramaturgy and interpretation: Erik Forsberg
Set and lighting design: Clàudia Aguiló
Sound design: Sergio Camacho
Executive production and assistant director: Alba Saura-Clares
Comunication: Eladi Bonastre
Administrative production: Làudanum
With the support of: Konvent (Residència FREE), L’Estruch Fàbrica de Creació (Sabadell), Departament de Cultura de la Generalitat de Catalunya
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ghinwa daher & ghenwa abou fayad – dissonant skies
(Premiere in Catalonia)
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In response to the attacks on Lebanon, “dissonant skies” unfolds as a live storytelling video, sound and music performance shaped by the contrasting experiences of two Lebanese artists. Visual artist and filmmaker ghinwa daher documented the repercussions of war from within Beirut, capturing fragments of daily life under rupture. In parallel, cross-disciplinary artist ghenwa (nwaré) abou fayad encountered the violence from across the sea, negotiating memory, distance, and longing through sound. The performance becomes a dialogue between presence and absence, interlacing ghinwa’s filming with nwaré’s live sonic response, tracing how displacement, war, and belonging reverberate across bodies, images, and frequencies.
ghinwa daher is a Lebanese visual storyteller working across filmmaking and photography whose practice focuses on documenting human experiences and social realities. ghenwa (nwaré) abou fayad is a Lebanese cross-disciplinary artist, performer, and workshop facilitator whose work explores language, sound, memory, and archiving through installation, performance, and music. As two Lebanese artists who experienced the attacks on Lebanon from different positions, we created dissonant skies as a way to bring these perspectives into dialogue. While ghinwa documented fragments of daily life from within Lebanon, nwaré encountered the violence from afar, through screens, phone calls, memory, and distance. We came together to create this project in September 2025 as part of the Mediterrani Expandit residency at Konvent Zero. As the war continues, the performance remains a living and evolving project.
Image: ghinwa daher
Filmmaker, editor and performance co-director: ghinwa daher
Musician, singer and performance co-director: ghenwa abou fayad
Sound technician: (we are still looking for the sound technician)
Appearing in the video: Marie Daher, Elsy Hajjar, Farah Naboulsi, Alicia Fahed, Karim Ghorayyeb, Hadi Awada, Nader Bahsoun, Serge Harfouche, Muriele Honein, Alya Hazim
Translation support: Aya El Zein
Supporting entity: Konvent Zero
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