Installation: Rest and Resistance
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A miniature theater model with video recording (6 min)
14.9. 2024 - Long Night of the Theaters
Lichthof -Theater Hamburg, Renzelstraße 40
Viewing from 19.30 - 21.00
Free admission
How can “resting” be resistant? Against the prevailing capitalist narrative of the necessity of consumerism, efficiency and growth? We have built a model, a fictitious, chilly miniature theater space. The theater as a “safe space”, as a kind of living room for a transgenerational miniature audience.
The installation's doll's house metaphors suggest a cozy place where we can all relax together and watch the performers in a video, wrapped up in this supposed safety. However, they are at the mercy of the adverse digital outside space. The 6-minute video runs in a loop on a pad in the diorama-inspired “stage space”.
In the digital background, partly processed with AI tools, internet-generated short scenes can be seen behind the performers filmed on green screen. There they encounter exhausted, fighting figures from computer games, futuristic sleeping cabins and street battles with the police.
Various motifs on the theme of rest and resistance are deliberately loosely strung together in the video, allowing the viewer to freely associate connections and dependencies.
Concept, Construction: Barbara Schmidt-Rohr & Marie-Luise Balzer
Video design, editing: Jens Hasenberg
Sound design: Bendrik Grossterlinden
Performance/Video: Tatjana Walter, Yolanda Morales, Virendra Nishad, Rodolpho Sagbo, Alessia Marra
Audience models: Pauline Schönfelder, Virendra Nishad, Enno Schneekloth, Jens Hasenberg, Barbara Schmidt-Rohr, Marie-Luise Balzer
We thank for the support and cooperation:
Lichthof-Theater Hamburg, Károly Pákozdy, Makerhafen Hamburg
Supported by: Fonds Darstellende Künste with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media as part of Neustart Kultur