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WETWARE

  • O-Team feat. Antje Töpfer and Folkert Dückert, Germany
  • Duration 60 Minutes
  • with German written language
  • Adult 16,50 € | concession 11,50 €
  • Puppetry

Nina Malotta
Foto: Gianmarco Bresadola
© Anna Kpok
Nina Malotta
Klaus G. Kohn
Klaus G. Kohn
Markus Niessner
Markus Niessner
Nina Malotta
Nina Malotta
Nina Malotta
Nina Malotta
Nina Malotta
Nina Malotta

WETWARE – Looking at the technology of the soul

WETWARE – Looking at the technology of the soul

»WETWARE« is mechanical dance theatre or musical puppet theatre. »WETWARE« encompasses a poetic approach to the emotional life of the techno-self – it plays with opposites and dependencies between love and death, the precision of machines and the feeling of humans. Inspired by Paul B. Preciado’s auto-experimental book »Testo Junkie«, the puppet theatre performance put on by O-Team explores the malleability of body and self within the context of technology, drugs, sex and biopolitics. In the same way as a long-form poem, it describes the reinvention of nature, electro-cellular circuits, intimate desires, chemical reactions and the technology of the soul.

In its 2021/22 season review, ‘Die Deutsche Bühne’ praises the work carried out by the Stuttgart O-Team which reflects their love of discourse and images, and “which looks at innovations that reflect the link between technology and progress on the one hand, and their displacement from the common consciousness on the other”. Planned to open the festival in 2020 and subsequently becoming a victim of lockdown, »WETWARE« is now finally coming to Berlin to close the 2022 edition of Theater der Dinge.

Notes on accessibility: Information about the accessibility of the venue in structural terms can be found here. As part of the performance, strobe lighting is used in a longer sequence. Loud music with a heavy beat is also used. The text is projected in written German.

Dates

7.11. Mon

Performance, puppet making
Antje Töpfer

Performance
Folkert Dückert

Direction, concept, maschines
S
amuel Hof

Stage and costume design
Nina Malotta

Music
Harry Delgas

Dramaturgy
Antonia Beermann

Technical management
Robin Burkhard

Production
Sabelle Gatterburg

Co-production with
HochX Theater, Live Art München, Theater der Stadt Aalen

Sponsored by
Fonds Doppelpass der Kulturstiftung des Bundes, Landeshauptstadt Stuttgart

The guest performance is supported by the Fonds Doppelpass of the Federal Cultural Foundation.

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