I AM (VR)

conception and design Susanne Kennedy Markus Selg and Rodrik Biersteker

##general.period##:: 20/03 – 28/03/24
##general.room##:: Montjuïc. Sala Fabià Puigserver

Show completed

Timetable

Wednesday to Sunday
from 17:00 to 20:45
(performances every 45’)

Running time

35'

Place

Sala Fabià Puigserver foyer

Language

In English

Price

€5 – €10

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Description

The German director Susanne Kennedy has worked with Markus Selg and Rodrik Biersteker to come up with a performative virtual reality installation: a digital oracle for the perennial philosophical questions.

Inspired by the oracle of Delphos and its cries to know ourselves, on I AM (VR) the participants wear virtual reality glasses and are lured into mysterious rooms to the unknown. They walk through tunnels like wormholes that cross the fabric of space-time to reach new planets under new skies, and a new oracle. It is a 35-minute journey through a hallucinatory post-theatre environment following the maxim: ‘I dream therefore I am, both in reality and virtually’.

Susanne Kennedy (1977) is one of the most distinctive voices in European theatre. Her pieces are a radical invitation to act out the real. She explores the blurry line between actor and machine. In her theatre work, performers wear masks and speak with pre-recorded voices. Through perceptual shifts and the constant blurring of hypnotic images, Kennedy interrogates the stable representation of reality. She pushes the limits of theatre and turns to the medium’s archaic ritual roots in order to ask deep and at times confrontational questions: Who are we? What is our reason for existing in this world? How do we relate to our own demons?

At the Teatre Lliure, Kennedy presented Drei Schwestern during the 19/20 season in the context of Katharsis.

Schedule

CAST

Diamanda Dramm

Tarren Johnson

Ixchel Mendoza Hernández

Dominic Santia

Kate Strong

VOICES

Susanne Kennedy

Ixchel Mendoza Hernandez

Ibadet Ramadani

Frank Willens

AVATAR

Thomas Hauser

Ixchel Mendoza Hernandez

Benjamin Radjaipour

TEXT

Susanne Kennedy

DRAMATURGY

Tobias Staab

VISUAL DESIGN

Markus Selg and Rodrik Biersteker

PROGRAMMING

Rodrik Biersteker

SOUND AND COMPOSITION

Richard Janssen

COSTUMES

Teresa Vergho

MANAGEMENT AND DISTRIBUTION

Something Great (Berlin)

AND THE TEAMS OF

Teatre Lliure

THANKS TO

Chiaki Soma, Christoph Gurk, the whole Oracle Team, Rafael Steinhauser, Anna Rausch, Lucas S. Maximiliano, Matthias Lilienthal

PRODUCTION

Ultraworld Productions (Berlin)

CO-PRODUCTION

Berliner Festspiele (Berlin), Hybrid Box / Hellerau - Europäisches Zentrum der Künste (Dresden), Internationales Sommerfestival Kampnagel (Hamburg), Münchner Kammerspiele (Munich), Noorderzon Festival of Performing Arts & Society (Groningen), Schauspielhaus Bochum / Oval Office (Bochum), Theater Commons Tokyo (Tokyo) and Volkstheater Wien (Vienna).