Flinn Works: Carbon Negative – Compensation performance – Sophiensæle | Independent Theater in Berlin
Flinn Works:
Carbon Negative – Compensation performance

Carbon Negative – Compensation performance
German, English
10€/15€/20€/25€
Premiere
Relaxed Performance
June 7, following the performance: Artist talk with Flinn Works
Flight shame? Climate complexes? Want to reduce your carbon footprint but don't know how? Then come to Carbon Negative! This performance is not only climate-neutral, but climate-positive. Your visit actively contributes to improving the carbon footprint because we overcompensate our harmful emissions.
Flinn Works presents innovative ideas and certified options from the CO₂ compensation laboratory: classic methods such as reforestation and solar stove projects, but also new approaches such as enhanced rock weathering, algae cultivation, direct air capture and storage and crypto-coins based on AI-controlled monitoring of the Amazon.
The clock is ticking. Our climate budget is almost exhausted. We can no longer afford to wait for perfect solutions or systemic change. Perhaps the 1.5 degree target is still achievable after all if we use smart technologies on a large scale and make them marketable? Or are such climate protection projects ultimately just greenwashing and green colonialism?
Think with us. Join in the decision. For a better future!
Between laboratory, interaction and audiovisual performance, Carbon Negative opens up a space for reflection, irritation and possibilities for action.
Created by Susana Alonso (Light design), Lea Dietrich (Stage, costume design), Konradin Kunze (Performance, artistic direction), Andi Otto (Composition, performance), Grischa Schwiegk (CO₂ balancing), Sophia Stepf (Artistic direction), Maja Zagórska (Artistic Collaboration, social media), Marit Buchmeier & Lisanne Grotz / xplus3 Produktionsbüro (Production management)
A production by Flinn Works in co-production with Sophiensæle. Supported by the Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion of the State of Berlin, Fonds Darstellende Künste with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media, the Hessian Ministry of Science and Research, Art and Culture as well as the Cultural Office of the City of Kassel and the Gerhard Fieseler Foundation.
Flinn Works (Berlin) works on themes of globalization with a focus on postcolonial and feminist issues. The performances and installations are based on intensive research and use the personal attitudes of the international participants for a multi-perspective dramaturgy. At the interface between ethnology and documentary formats, productions are created that develop their form as a consequence of the content and the talents of the team involved. Flinn Works has won three META Awards in New Delhi, the Förderpreis der Zürcher Kantonalbank, the Tabori Award of the Fonds Darstellende Künste and the Prize of the International Theater Institute Germany. The projects will be shown in Germany, Switzerland, India and Tanzania.