By and with: : Olga Brunsmann, Sarah Günther, Vettka Kirillova, Heimo Lattner, Yumin Li, Nicola Nord, Mariana Senne dos Santos, Ulf Soltau, Wang Wang / Concept & direction: andcompany&Co. / Text: Alexander Karschnia, Nicola Nord &Co. / Music: Sascha Sulimma &Co. / Props & Costume: Raul Walch / Choir direction: Christine Groß / Inflatable Installation: POPTICUM (Lorenz Kuschnig Lefort, Maxie Schneider) / Space capsule: Lena Newton with Caroline Wächter, remixed by Raul Walch / Assistance direction: Saskia Mommertz, Kasia Noga / Assistance props: Shira Karmi, Caroline Wächter, Christian Dillner / Assistance costume: Anna Mirkin / Assistance set design: Jonas Haala / Technical direction: Marc Zeuske / Sound: Thorsten Hoppe / Light: Arno Truschinski / Technical assistance: Jöran Mandik / Coordination Floating University: Ute Lindenbeck / Production & communication: Lisa Schmidt / Finance management: Laura Biagioni / Company Management: Caroline Farke
andcompany&Co.
MarsOnEarth: Die Marsnahme
Location: Floating University Berlin, Lilienthalstraße 32, 10965 Berlin (Outdoor)
- Theatre
German /
English surtitles /
approx. 90 mins.
A combination of art, science and activism: With “MarsOnEarth,” the theatre collective andcompany&Co. is staging a science fiction happening on the grounds of the Floating University Berlin. Inspired by Soviet science fiction, the performance addresses the exploitation of resources and uses music and sustainable materials to develop new visions for a future worth living on Earth.
While Elon Musk has his sights set on Mars to create a colony for a million billionaires by 2050, the theatre collective andcompany&Co. are confronting the Martian landscape that we humans have already created ourselves through climate change: Welcome to “MarsOnEarth”! This sci-fi happening – a combination of science, activism, and art – is taking shape at the Floating University Berlin. Following in the footsteps of the sci-fi novels “The Red Star” (1908) and “Engineer Menni” (1913) by Soviet author Alexander Bogdanov, andcompany&Co. encounter a utopian, high-tech Mars society that, after having exhausted its own planet’s resources, is planning to colonise Earth. It seems as if the past were writing the future here. But what can the present make of it?
Joined by activist citizens, scientists, performers, and a dog, the collective is searching for planetary visions of an earthly future. On the stage, suspended above the rainwater retention basin of the former Tempelhof Airport, the threatened earth habitat is presented as a post-apocalyptic scenario, incorporating objects and costumes by visual artist Raul Walch sustainably produced from upcycled materials. Backed by retro-futuristic synthesiser sounds, collective Martian training sessions will be held and transformation councils founded, degrowth communism negotiated, and the planet cult tested as a new practice of earthly coexistence. “Planetarians of all countries, unite!”
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Credits
Production: andcompany&Co. Co-produktion: HAU Hebbel am Ufer, FFT Düsseldorf. Funded by: Hauptstadtkulturfonds, Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion. The re-run is funded by the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion.
