02.01.2022
STILL LIFE at Maxim Gorki Theater Berlin/January 12. 2022.
January 12 2021 STILL LIFE A CHORUS FOR ANIMALS, PEOPLE AND ALL OTHER LIVES, newest project of Marta Górnicka will be presented on the stage of Maxim Gorki Theater in Berlin.
Whose life counts as life? Whose life is still a life? Democratic societies are based on the segregation, digital control and exploitation of existences considered superfluous. Every day we are witness of the brutal denial of the status of living entities to successive groups of beings. STILL LIFE is a choral manifesto of re-invented society, a call for a radical new world of relations. The chorus creates a border-crossing song to expose the invisible mechanisms of violence, exclusion and annihilation of life, turning “never again” into “Auschwitz kein Ende”. The chorus operates with techniques of exaggeration, alienation of language, it exists between lip-sync, language, music and silence. Clashing narrations it creates a digital, post-language song as a monstrous answer to our reality. In the end eight actors, embodying a multiplied Dionysus, god of ecstasy and indestructible life invite you to a vision of a chorus of all living beings: humans and non-humans, living and dead, voices of people murdered in Auschwitz, rhythms of Namibian tribes, animals and all others…
The starting point and metaphor for the performance is the magnificent panorama from the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, the wall of biodiversity. Life and non-life in the same time.
Theater is a place of hope” excerpt of the interview with Marta Górnicka, Arno Widmann
Fundamental mechanism of annihilation of life is always the same. Auschwitz kein Ende, as Heiner Muller said. Never again can always turning into Auschwitz no end, but frankly speaking, nobody listen to the survivors.The main picture of the production shows the wall of biodiversity from the Berlin Museum of Natural History. A magnificent panorama. The biggest still life in the world. You stand in front of it and know, all these creatures belong together. But then you realise. It doesn’t just show life. It also shows death. As beautiful as the picture is, it is also terrible. West theatre of death disguised as life. This is a metaphor, big sarcophagus many forms of live. Through this one can look on the history of extinct species, historical violence and genocides.The mechanism of annihilation of live is invisible but alive”.
Cast: Sandra Bourdonnec, Lindy Larsson Forss, Hila Meckier, Gian Mellone, David JongSung Myung , Vidina Popov, Sesede Terziyan, Rika Weniger
