The Making Life in the Ruins festival opens at the Sophiensælen on 15 May. The international performance festival is showing a total of ten productions, including six German premieres. In the first week of the festival, works by Tiran Willemse, Basel Zaraa and Paula Almirón will be presented.
Making Life in the Ruins brings together contemporary artistic positions from different regions that deal with the tension between the confrontation with outdated concepts and the loss caused by violent events.
The works thematise the confrontation with lost ideas of the future and the past and use these as a starting point for new artistic perspectives. Memories and ideas are combined to create speculative narratives, alternative rituals and archaeological …
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