The sun sets eight times a day
By various artists
Eight artists come together without travelling, despite the virus and especially despite climate change. They use all digital media and improvise live, developing new forms of performance in a specially created heterotopia. Over the course of ten days, they will engage in a model artistic discourse on the basic idea of what a future-oriented, global social contract could look like, which can only succeed through fair communication at eye level between the world regions. In a joint web-based virtual 3D theatre space, in which national borders play no role, a future-oriented, political, global dialogue is acted out as the artists imagine it. In this sense, the process is also the content. The audience can participate worldwide with their own contributions and interactions. In this way, despite the pandemic and the climate crisis, a democratic space is created that allows an international exchange that is accessible to everyone.
Direction and performance: Youness Atbane (Morocco), Zarif Bakirova (Azerbaijan), Amitesh Grover (India), Abdalla Daif (Egypt), Lucy Ellinson (Cymru/Wales, UK), Daniel Hengst (Germany), Azade Shahmiri (Iran), Maya Zbib (Lebanon), Lydia Ziemke (Germany)
Idea and concept: Lydia Ziemke/suite42 and Abdalla Daif
Dramaturgy: Amitesh Grover, Daniel Hengst and Lydia Ziemke
Media art concept and realisation, programming: Daniel Hengst
Programming and hosting: Alex Hof
Dramaturgical translation concept: PANTHEA
Translation work and coordination: Raman Khalaf & Crew (PANTHEA)
Production management: Tammo Walter
Assistance to the artists: Hiba Mehrez, Mahdiyeh Hashemi
A suite42 production in cooperation with tak e.V.
Online performance 21-31 July 2021, 24h, the artistic creations are still visible online.
Developed as part of "dive in. Programme for Digital Interactions" of the Kulturstiftung des Bundes (German Federal Cultural Foundation) with funding by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media (BKM) through the NEUSTART KULTUR programme.
Direction and performance: Youness Atbane (Morocco), Zarif Bakirova (Azerbaijan), Amitesh Grover (India), Abdalla Daif (Egypt), Lucy Ellinson (Cymru/Wales, UK), Daniel Hengst (Germany), Azade Shahmiri (Iran), Maya Zbib (Lebanon), Lydia Ziemke (Germany)
Idea and concept: Lydia Ziemke/suite42 and Abdalla Daif
Dramaturgy: Amitesh Grover, Daniel Hengst and Lydia Ziemke
Media art concept and realisation, programming: Daniel Hengst
Programming and hosting: Alex Hof
Dramaturgical translation concept: PANTHEA
Translation work and coordination: Raman Khalaf & Crew (PANTHEA)
Production management: Tammo Walter
Assistance to the artists: Hiba Mehrez, Mahdiyeh Hashemi
A suite42 production in cooperation with tak e.V.
Online performance 21-31 July 2021, 24h, the artistic creations are still visible online.
Developed as part of "dive in. Programme for Digital Interactions" of the Kulturstiftung des Bundes (German Federal Cultural Foundation) with funding by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media (BKM) through the NEUSTART KULTUR programme.