Contenidos Superfluos
Contenidos Superfluos is a performing arts creation platform founded in 2019 in Barcelona. Led by director and playwright Pau Masaló, it collaborates with professionals from various artistic disciplines and fields of thought. Its activity focuses on driving projects that bring the codes of contemporary theatre into dialogue with the experiences of non-professional individuals.
Each creative process initiated by the platform is conceived as a meeting point between the aesthetic and discursive potential of the stage and the bodies and stories of those who inhabit it.
Among its notable works are:
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The National Body (Grec Festival, Sala Hiroshima), where a former gymnast invites us to explore the relationship between sport and politics;
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Ciutat dormitori (Teatre Lliure), an outdoor performance featuring five cemetery workers reflecting on work and rest, which has been awarded the MAX Prize, the Critics’ Prize, and El Temps de les Arts Award.
During the 2022/2023 season, as part of the Teatre Lliure’s artist-in-residence program, Contenidos Superfluos began developing Farewell, Petroleum!, a creative project focusing on the history of oil and the need for collective rituals to bid farewell to fossil fuels.
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Residence december 2025
Farewell, Petroleum! #3: A Car is the third chapter of the long-term stage project Farewell, Petroleum!, which reflects on the end of fossil fuels and the imagination of post-petroleum futures.
The performance, set to premiere in 2026 at Fundació Joan Brossa in Barcelona, presents an intimate and poetic encounter between a stage creator and a Renault 21, a vehicle symbolizing both the economic progress of an era and personal memory.
Through autofiction, humor, and simulation, the piece offers a critical look at private mobility models, the nostalgia for unlimited growth, and the construction of masculinity. It is a ritual performance between documentary and fiction, grief and acceptance, aimed at collectively facing the transition to a post-fossil world.
At the current rate of consumption, it’s estimated that all the world’s oil will be depleted by 2050. Since the first extraction well was built in 1859, human progress has been dangerously tied to this resource. But while the economy thrived, the reserves dwindled.
Farewell, Petroleum! aims to approach the story of this energy source and explore possible rituals to help us say goodbye to a world that will never be the same again.
