I and/or you find ourselves elsewhere – with a mental and/or physical separation in between. This distance makes the world feel more uncertain: Who am I? Can one really trust one’s own memories? And what are my moral values based on? Many foundations once believed to be reliable are beginning to crumble. Here are people who no longer live in the same reality as before. And that is likely to remain the case in the near future.
Yuri Birte Anderson, Valeria Karelina, Roman Lykov and Marie Fuchs explore this complex of themes in the context of war, dementia or exile in their final project. The result is a three-part series on the difficulty of living at a distance from oneself and others – presented through three very different artistic approaches:
One Way Ticket (directed by Roman Lykov)
“You can leave your village, but your village never leaves you.” (proverb)
From the car, we look out at a large white statue. The landscape rolls past, just like it used to in the shared taxis. Next stop: the capital! Can you see those buildings? That’s where I studied, that’s where I was arrested, that’s where I spent the happiest time of my life. It always takes a long time to explain where I come from and what brought me here. Why I’m no longer there.
Entgleitungen (directed by Valeria Karelina)
“Dealing with him on a daily basis now felt more and more like living in a work of fiction.” Arno Geiger: The Old King in His Exile
A glance between us. Eye to eye. But … Why don’t my glances reach you? Our shared reality is crumbling. I notice how you are losing your grasp of reality more and more. How you recognize me, yourself and the world less and less. How your memory is fading. – A piece by Valeria Karelina and her team about being together when the foundations of our shared perception are crumbling.
Traces of us / сліди від нас (directed by Yuri Birte Anderson)
Yuri Birte Anderson and Antonina Krim have worked together on theatre projects for many years. But since 2022, that has no longer been possible. Since 2022, Antonina has been fighting as a Ukrainian soldier in the war of aggression. Since 2022, only digital communication has been possible. Absence and uncertainty now define this friendship and working relationship. How does one deal with this personal and artistic loss? As a performer, Yuri embarks on an attempt to explore her complex emotions and to question the impossibility of joint creative work. – An attempt to seek the possible within the impossible, in the here and now.
WITH: Yuri Birte Anderson, Moritz Andrea Bürge, Cornelia Dexl, Elias Khani-Alemouti, Antonina Krim, Roman Lykov, Janna Rottmann
STAGE DESIGN: Yoko Halbwidl, Max Mauro Schmid
VIDEO ART/ASSISTANCE: Caleb Chan, Vadim Levin, Zee Upitis
COSTUME DESIGN: Salome König, Glykeria Makrygianni, Léna Morvant
SOUND DESIGN: Sulthan Butiku, Dennis Enke
CHOREOGRAPHY: Valentina Zatevalneva
TEXT: Iryna Serebriakova
DRAMATURGY: Marie Fuchs
DIRECTOR’S ASSISTANT: Liliane Rieckmann, Moritz Noser
CONCEPT: Yuri Birte Anderson, Valeria Karelina, Roman Lykov, Marie Fuchs
OUTSIDE EYE: Caleb Chan, Egle Svedkauskaite
MENTORAT: Lola Arias, Julián Ignacio Garcés, Dominic Huber, Barbara Sommer, Dominika Široká
SUPPORTED BY: Anne-Marie Schindler Foundation