Inspired by radio drama and sci-fi movies, the diverse conversations, animated with narration, incidental sounds and specially composed musical extracts, accompany Bonequi’s own 3D animation, appearing intermittently during the performance. Expanding the narrative with non-realistic models and non figurative but associative aesthetics, Bonequi creates snapshots of imaginary characters and scenarios that activate our frustration towards our global inaction and fear of its repercussions.
Bonequi's "Death of the Anthropcene" starts from one of the most disturbing moments in radio's history, Orson Wells famous radio drama "War of the Worlds", which aired life on Hallowe'en in 1938. Bonequi is less interested in the myth about this broadcast and the panic that it caused (or what the media made out of some reactions), but more in the broadcasted text of Wells' adaption. While in "War of the Worlds" the aliens are hostile, do not talk and destroy all that is living, Bonequi's multi-layered, humourous and strange adaption reminds us of the fact that Wells's fantasy is not fiction anymore.
Commissioned as part of the CTM Radio Lab, led by CTM Festival and Deutschlandfunk Kultur – Radio Art / Klangkunst in collaboration with Goethe-Institut, ORF musikprotokoll im steirischen herbst, Ö1 Kunstradio, and The Wire magazine.