Lola Arias on Falklands War Project Minefield at Romaeuropa Festival

Argentine artist Lola Arias brings her multidisciplinary project Minefield to Italy, staged at Teatro Vascello in Rome on November 16-17 as part of Romaeuropa Festival, followed by a master class at Studio K in Milan on November 20. The project, spanning theater, film, video installation, and a bilingual book, reunites six veterans of the 1982 Falklands War—three Argentine and three British—who perform their own memories on stage. Arias spent two years interviewing 70 veterans to select the six performers. The work avoids reconciliation in favor of creating a common ground among former enemies, exploring trauma and memory. A film version, Theater War, premiered at the Berlinale. Arias, born in 1976 under the Argentine dictatorship, discusses the ongoing impact of the war and current political and economic crises in Argentina, noting the rise of the feminist movement as a positive force.