What is Not / O Que Não Está

02nd Feb 2022 06th Feb 2022 14:00 20:00

Fronte Violeta with Martha Kiss Perrone

00:00

Tieranatomisches Theater

Free

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  • Fronte Vacuo

    IT/DE

    The bastard performing arts triumvirate formed as a response to ecological disruption, socio-political polarisation, and technological advances, making live art for a world at the edge of collapse.

  • Martha Kiss Perrone

    BR

    Brazilian director, actress, and dramaturgist Martha Kiss Perrone works in theatre, performance, dance, and cinema. Part of ColetivA Ocupação – a group formed by students and performers who met during the high school occupation movement in São Paulo in 2015 – she also now works internationally.

    • Commissioned as part of the CTM Radio Lab, this installation and radio play is created by Fronte Violeta with director, actress, and playwright Martha Kiss Perrone plus collaboration with actress and performer Kay Sara and singer Juçara Marçal. The work takes place in the context of end-of-the-world narratives, provoking the possibility of types of contact that trigger new perceptions of listening to what is absent, and to narratives, bodies, and technologies that survive disasters.

    Image courtesy of the artists

    The work takes off from the sound cosmologies, languages, voices, and vibrations of other worlds. These sounds occupy and infiltrate spaces, structures, buildings, walls, and emblematic architecture, producing dissident and underground sonorities that are invisible from dominant narratives and manifest as a sonic uprising. Through three movements – underground (the silence of what is unseen), flood (humidity and the weeping that make matter fertile), and uprising (the slow transformation of matter and the plurality of voices in a multi-species chorus), the artists investigate a cycle of various long-acting natural forces that promote structural transformation, while also pointing to contact between the human and non-human, and between inert and living matter.

    The work is commissioned as part of the CTM Radio Lab, which since 2014 has commissioned new works that explore the intersection of radio with live performance or installation within the context of the festival’s yearly theme. It will be broadcast in its radio version by Deutschlandfunk Kultur on 25 March, and presented by ORF Austrian Broadcasting Service in autumn 2022.

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    The Tieranatomisches Theater is located within the complex of the Humboldt-University, Campus Nord. On site please follow the signs to Tieranatomisches Theater.

    Monday–Friday entry is possible via several entrances:
    Luisenstr. 57, or Reinhardtstr. 18A (along Südpanke), or Philippstr. 13, 10117 Berlin

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    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.