How to protect your internal ecosystem

Venue

In order to produce computer chips, places with an absolute minimum of atmospheric pollution are required, so-called clean rooms. Factory work is monotonous, socially isolated and is conducted by following a strict production protocol. The chips manufactured there end up, amongst other places, in smartphone, the central gadgets of digitalization. These seem to have replaced the Fordist system of work. In its place, a self-realization imperative has emerged in which we learn to represent perfectly. The consequence of is that we study the best poses, which we then repeat monotonously over the course of our media-based everyday existences. Our own performance itself reverts back to being assembly line work. This devised work that exists at the intersections of performance and choreography with the central element of accompanying feeding-in of manufacturing protocols into the sequence of the production via in-ear headsets for the two performers. In a theatrical clean room, the audience observes two bodies at the melting point between human and machine. They approach, using uncanny mimetic attempts, the sterile smoothness of the digital network culture presented to them.

Cast

Direction & Concept: Miriam Schmidtke
Text: Mimu Merz, Miriam Schmidtke
Performance: Naemi Latzer, Mimu Merz
Cotume: Florian Kiehl
Music: Mimu Merz, Bernhard Hollinger
Video, Lighting, Technique Direction: Martin Siemann
Choreography: Lisa Magnan
Production: Idole und Dämonen
Video record: C'quence

Credits

A production by ada - artistic dynamic association and ASIFISM in cooperation with WERK XPetersplatz and VORBRENNER of BRUX / Freies Theater Innsbruck.

Supported by the Cultural Department of the City of Vienna, the Austrian Federal Chancellery / Art and Culture Section, the State of Tyrol and the Cultural Commission Innere Stadt Wien.

Trailer: "How to protect your internal ecosystem"