There’s Something in the Air: Stage & Environment

Ernst Busch University of Theatre Arts Berlin

6. May 2023

8 hours

With design researcher Clemens Winkler

With inputs from students of the MA program Spiel & Objekt, Ernst Busch University of Theatre Arts: Mari Hakopyan, Friedel Hänsel, Leonie Kopineck, Jonas Olbrich, Veronika Risnovska, Jeffrey van der Geest, Vili Pääkkö

In the Anthropocene, the geological period shaped by human activity, the environment has become a stage – one that presents environmental states of emergency and impending climatic tipping points. This workshop was devoted to the search for new climate fictions that can tell different stories about emissions, migratory dust, and cloud creation.

The participants’ task was to imagine how we move forward from here: What happens if stage climate experiments and the unfolding of the geological narrative? How can we bring personal experiences, statistical data, and embodied knowledge together in this theatrical negotiation forum?

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