Frankfurt-based performance and video artist Ayla Pierrot Arendt invites you to an extraordinary gathering. Gaia, Mother Earth, is dead. In the shadows of chaos, five video goddesses and their musical incarnations sing and negotiate the fate of their world and the handling of power and decision-making authority in a theatrical space. In a revision of Plato's eponymous dialogues, the multimedia opera brings together voices and bodies that empower and give each other voice. Rap meets cyborg voices, herbaceous chants meet electronic melodies, and shimmering arias, performance, live music and video art merge into a sensual amalgam. By cutting themselves off from Gaia as the exclusive nurturer whom humans have exploited, the projected video goddesses must face the consequences of finitude, take a stand and assume responsibility for collective survival. Arendt's “Politeia” projects the Greek myth onto contemporary body ideals and role models in order to break down societal values and detach them from the idea of a norm. An apocalyptic and hopeful adventure that is both an end and a beginning.
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No language skills required
World premiere
Mousonturm Co-production
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Concept, text, direction: Ayla Pierrot Arendt
Text, assistant director: Kristina Roeder
Cinematography/video editing: Ayla Pierrot Arendt, Nina Nadig
Cinematography: Nina Nadig
Costume design: Katharina Pia Schütz
Makeup/Equipment Assistant: Maria Anisimowa
3D Animation Video: Mirko Schütz
Stage: Ayla Pierrot Arendt, Katharina Pia Schütz
Sound engineering, audio installation: Fernando Castron
Lightdesign: Sebastian Schackert
Project management: Louisa Behr
Production internship: Alix Di Jusco
AIDOS
Lyrics, Vocals: Sofia Budaeva
Composition Instrumental: Fullruhm
Video performance: Antigone Akgün
APHRODITE
Text, Composition, Vocals: Jacob Bussmann
Video performance: Brigitta Schirdewahn
ATHENE
Text, composition, song: Johanna Wagner
Video performance: Isaak Kudaschov
Music Prologue: Constanze Zacharias
DEMETER
Text, composition, singing: Alla Popp
Video performance: Barbara Stollhans
HERA
Text, composition, singing: Helena Ratka
Video performance: Fatou Diop, Leonie Emeka
A production by Ayla Pierrot Arendt, in co-production with Künstler*innenhaus Mousonturm. Supported by the Kulturamt der Stadt Frankfurt am Main, the Frauenreferat Frankfurt am Main, and the NASPA Stiftung. Supported by the NATIONAL PERFORMANCE NETWORK - STEPPING OUT, funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media as part of the NEUSTART KULTUR initiative. Aid Programme Dance.