What on earth could compel a human being to dive 122 meters deep to beat a new apnea record? What is it that motivates our most meaningless acts, the ones that take superhuman efforts to obtain, in the end, tiny results? Pascal, the philosopher, once said that all of our misfortunes are born from our inability to stay put in our bedrooms. But nowadays, the world is overflowing even before we get out of bed… With The Conquest of the Useless, Oscar Gómez Mata summons enthusiasm on stage , that is to say the man who believes in his capacity to change beings and the world, who has thought as essential that which is not. The conquest begins here!
Born in San Sebastian, Oscar Gómez Mata lives and works in Geneva, Switzerland. An actor, stage director, author and scenographer, he began his theatrical activities in Spain in 1987 with the company Legaléon-T. In 1997, he founded the company L’Alakran : he has designed, written and directed more than 20 plays and performances which have been coproduced by Swiss and European venues and which tour in Europe and Latin America. An artist in residence at the Théâtre Saint-Gervais de Genève and the Subsistances in Lyon, he has also been involved in pedagogical work for several schools in Switzerland or France and was the head of the Master in stage practice and visual culture at the University of Alcalá in Madrid. Since 2013, he teaches at the Manufacture – the theatre school of French-speaking Switzerland (HETSR).
