Staying With The Trouble, 2019

UNRUHIG BLEIBEN/STAYING WITH THE TROUBLE Inspired by the writing of Donna Haraway Set design and video installation The excess population of human beings is taken on shocking dimensions – is it time to rethink things? Inspired by Donna Haraway, Unruhig bleiben/Staying with the Trouble invites the audience to experience a collective, speculative fabulation about five generations of a symbiogenetic connection between humanity and monarch butterflies. Five life stories between 2025 and 2425 make up this attempt to redesign the art of living together on a damaged planet. Anne Duk Hee Jordan created for this play a set design full of acting critters and a video wall bringing in the story of Camille and her symbionts: a kaleidoscope of metamorphosis between amphibians, bacteria, cannibalism, climate change, compost, landscapes, mushrooms and mating insects.

Dramaturgy: Carlos Manuel Set Design: Anne Duk Hee Jordan Video: Simone Serlenga Visual research: Pauline Doutreluingne Sound: Neda Sanai Technical engineer: Andreas Marckscheffel Assistant: Michelle Se Yoon Venue: Zitadelle Spandau Funded by Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Europa