- 01.07.2022, 6.00 pmsolidarity pricing system (you choose): € 5 / € 10 / € 20 / € 30
To See Climate (Change) is the result of an artistic research project initiated by Romuald Krężel and René Alejandro Huari Mateus at Frankfurt LAB in 2020 and since then further developed through residencies at Hellerau in Dresden, Biennale Warszawa and ZAMEK Cultural Center in Poznań, Poland, in collaboration with Monica Duncan, Clara Reiner and Patrick Faurot. The performance had its premiere in Kaserne Basel during Treibstoff Theatertage Festival in September 2021.
Starting from questions about sustainability in the midst of an environmental crisis and its impact on domestic living space, the performance addresses the ambivalences and ambiguities of the relationship between humans and the small dose of nature that can be found at home: indoor-plants. By inviting the plants to speculatively co-create their work, the artists search for possible ways to make the invisible – the climate and its changes – visible through performative means.
Recognizing that in order to create an ecological consciousness with tangible and lasting effects, it is necessary to acknowledge the lack of dialogue between humans and more-than-humans, the performance explores to what extent overcoming this communicative rupture can set the path towards a more egalitarian coexistence between the different forms of life on Earth.
Duration: 60 Min.
Language: English
After the performance there will be a free shuttle-service to the Maria Hilf church, so you can attend the concert OLIVIER MESSIAEN. Please let us know if you want to use the shuttle until 30 June 2022 by E-Mail: info@frankfurt-lab.de
Cast & Credits
CONCEPT and ARTISTIC DIRECTION: René Alejandro Huari Mateus and Romuald Krężel
DRAMATURGY and CHOREOGRAPHY: Monica Duncan, René Alejandro Huari Mateus, Romuald Krężel, Clara Reiner
PERFORMANCE: Monica Duncan / Antonia Beeskow, René Alejandro Huari Mateus, Romuald Krężel, Clara Reiner / Zuzana Žabková
VIDEO, SOUND DESIGN: Monica Duncan
LIVE SOUND PERFORMANCE, SOUND ENGINEERING: Antonia Beeskow
TECHNICAL DIRECTION, LIGHT: Patrick Faurot
TECHNICAL COLLABORATION: Felix Schwarzrock
COSTUME: Maldoror
PRODUCTION: Sven Rausch
PRODUCTION COLLABORATION: Joshua Geißler
A production by René Alejandro Huari Mateus & Romuald Krężel in co-production with Treibstoff Theatertage Basel
(Switzerland), HELLERAU – European Center for the Arts in Dresden and Künstlerhaus Mousonturm in Frankfurt am
Main. Supported by the NATIONALES PERFORMANCE NETZ Coproduction Fund for Dance, which is funded by the
Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media and by Fonds Darstellende Künste with funds from the
Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media within the program NEUSTART KULTUR. Supported by the
Cultural Office of the City of Frankfurt, Frankfurt LAB – Residency Program, Biennale Warszawa (Poland), Culture Center
ZAMEK in Poznań (Poland), as well as the Senate Department for Culture and Europe – Berlin and Edith Maryon
Foundation.
Biography
Romuald Krężel
ROMUALD KRĘŻEL. Born in Poland, Berlin-based choreographer and performer.
He received his MA in Choreography and Performance at the Institute for Applied Theatre Studies of Justus Liebig University Gießen/Germany as well as MA in Acting at the Film
School Łódź/Poland. His work is nourished by expanded choreographic practices that incorporate visual and performative elements. The resulting movement-based
performances, site-specific installations, participatory projects, videos, and other hybrid formats, explore themes such as labor, resistance, class struggle, environmental
catastrophes and the potential exchange between humans and more-than-humans.
Among others, he collaborated with the following artists – Monica Duncan, René Alejandro Huari Mateus, Carolina Mendonça, Tamara Antonijević, Emmilou Rößling, Komuna//
Warszawa collective.
His works have been presented in venues like Kunstverein in Frankfurt, Palais de la Porte Dorée in Paris, Biennale Warszawa in Warsaw, as well as at the numerous festivals and
theatres, among others HAU Hebbel am Ufer, Performing Arts Festival in Berlin; Hellerau –European Centre for the Arts in Dresden; Künstlerhaus Mousonturm in Frankfurt; Kaserne
Basel in Switzerland; Nowy Theatre and Komuna//Warszawa in Warsaw/Poland; Gdańsk Dance Festival/Poland.
Romuald was awarded numerous artistic and research scholarships, including the WimmelResearch-Fellowship founded by Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart and Robert
Bosch Centre for Research in Renningen and Young Poland scholarship from the National Centre for Culture in Warsaw.
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Biography
René Alejandro Huari Mateus
René Alejandro Huari Mateus choreografiert Tänze, die das Mehr-als-Menschliche feiern, und verfolgt dabei einen naiven Eigensinn: den Windmühlen der institutionalisierten Diskriminierung zu trotzen, die es in Deutschland gelegentlich erlaubt, dass einige Tänze von manchen Nicht-Deutschen choreografiert werden.
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Monica Duncan
ist eine Video- und Performance- Künstlerin. In ihrer Arbeit untersucht sie die Natur der visuellen Perzeption, die Beziehungen zwischen Publikum und Performer:in und die queere Potenzialität durch Camouflage, Stille und kollektive Bildgestaltung.
Zuzana Žabková
macht Kunst, Tanz, Magie, Choreografie durch Performance, Video und Installationen. Sie stößt auf scheiternde Utopien und bewegt sich am liebsten als Reptil. Sie arbeitet allein und mit Freunden zusammen, um die Wertschätzung von Arbeit und Pflege zu überdenken. Sie ist Mitbegründerin der Plattform björnsonova – eine fiktive Figur, eine Gemeinschaft und ein tanzender Mehrkörper mit Wurzeln und Verbindungen, die sich über Zeit, Raum und Kunstformen erstrecken. Gemeinsam mit Tamara Antonijević, Tanja Šljivar, Lucia Kvočáková, Lucie Mičíková, Nik Timková und anderen praktiziert sie Anti-Strategien, Schicksalsarbeit und Scheinheilung.
Patrick Faurot
ist ein multidisziplinär arbeitender Performancekünstler und Theatertechniker. Außerdem würde er gerne einige Berge besteigen.
Clara Reiner
lebt in Offenbach. Sie performt, macht Stücke und Keramiken, schätzt Humor und arbeitet meist mit anderen. Mit Max Brands und Christopher Weickenmeier bildet sie ein ruhendes, schwaches Kollektiv das um choreographische Systeme, Sci-Fi Narrative, queere Theorie, Theaterdispositive und Freundschaft kreist.