COC - Children of Compost

 

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What is life? What is care? Is common survival on a destroyed planet even possible?«

As of June 2018, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) listed 310 extinct species, 117 possibly extinct species, 14 extinct species in the wild, eight extinct subspecies and five extinct subspecies of molluscs in the wild.
»Ok, I wonder – if everything would be fluid, I mean, really everything, would there still be matter? And if there is no matter, would things still matter? If everything would be fluid, would fluidity then be considered stable? Can something that is constantly shifting its shape last forever, is something that is fluid stable in its own way?«

Let’s make kin with the last living Great Ramshorn snail and form a cluster of mutual care. Not extracting but providing, forming Sym Bodies out of human humus. Getting rid of the spine, using lungs under water, making skin produce slime. Genetics. Metamorphosis. The future belongs to Children of Compost.

Direction & Performance
: MAX GADOW
, JANNE NORA KUMMER


Choreography & Performance: AMARNAH AMULUDUN


Music & Performance
: MAGIC ISLAND
Dramaturgy & Text Edition
: SVEN BJÖRN POPP
, FEE RÖMER


Video: SAM ALDRIDGE


Stage & Costume Design: MARILENA BÜLD


Technical Management& Lighting Design: 
STEFAN DAMNIG


Assistance: 
ISABELLE WAPNITZ


Production
: JOHANNA J. THOMAS
, LISANNE GROTZ





A virtuellestheater production in co-operation with BALLHAUS OST, 2018. Supported by Hauptstadtkulturfonds, die Berliner Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Europa and Bezirksamt Pankow, Amt für Weiterbildung und Kultur – Fachbereich Kunst und Kultur.