In Caroline Creutzburg’s latest work, this time created in close collaboration with René Alejandro Huari Mateus, the audience is contacted by “Die Vielhundertjährigen” (“The Many-Centenarians”). They, who are several hundred years old, are now inhabitants of a post-digital world. Based on their own fantasies and desires, the artists and the 65 to 87 year-old ensemble members have created their own science fiction narrative. Departing from the typical totalitarian-apocalyptic images and narratives of the genre, the “Many-Centenarians” show us a future in which the world's body of knowledge is literally stored in DNA, in which the world can be printed three-dimensionally with fingers, in which humans consist only of eyes and float in existence. The play focuses on the autonomy and the transformative potential of ageing. Caroline Creutzburg and René Alejandro Huari Mateus conjure up a counter-myth of bodily technological progress: ageing becomes an act of hacking time and identity.
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Duration: 60 min
Language: German
Mousonturm-Coproduction
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Concept and Artist Direction: Caroline Creutzburg
Co-Direction: René Alejandro Huari Mateus
Co-development and performance: Margret Barra, Karin Krohn, Dita Rita Scholl, Christine Tischkau, Monika Zimmering
Co-development: Agyana Tosch
Costume: Artemiy Shokin
Stage: David Reiber Otálora
Light and Technical Direction: Hannah Brown
Sound: Fernando Quartana
Collaboration in research: Eva Königshofen
Outside Eye: Clara Reiner
Assistance: Luca Plaumann
Public Relations: Claudia Redka
A production by Caroline Creutzburg in co-production with SOPHIENSÆLE and Künstler*innenhaus Mousonturm. Supported by the Senate Department for Culture and Europe of the State of Berlin, by the Fonds Darstellende Künste with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media as part of NEUSTART KULTUR, by the Cultural Office of the City of Frankfurt, by the Hessian Ministry of Science and Art and the Women's Department of the City of Frankfurt.
Artistic production management: Carmen Salinas