Zwoisy Mears-Clarke worked for 2 years as an engineer at a company in Berlin with 50 middle-aged men who like to eat Fleischsalat (meat salad), Boulette (a kind of meatball) and cake during their lunch break and starting from 11 o'clock greet each other by saying "Mahlzeit [meal time]." Rike Flämig, who was born in Leipzig, found this absurd and admitted that the last time she ate sausage was before the turn of the millennium. Zwoisy, however, thought “but that’s the norm here, right?"

Following this key experience, Rike Flämig and Zwoisy Mears-Clarke in their production Fleischsalat question concepts of normality and abnormality, stereotypes and normativity. They analyze mechanisms of 'Othering' using examples from German colonial history and the German reunification process. At the level of the body, they engage with the effects of everyday colonization and decolonization as well with racisms and microaggressions. Their theoretical research into strategies of Othering and their dance research into the inscriptions on and within the body by means of microaggressions come together in Fleischsalat.

PERFORMANCE, CONCEPT Rike Flämig, Zwoisy Mears-Clarke SOUND ENVIRONMENT Martyna Poznańska COSTUME ka:oz mode (Anna Hentschel) LIGHT DESIGN Emesce Csornai VIDEO Felipe Frozza DRAMATURGY Maja Zimmermann DRAMATURGICAL CONSULTING Gabi Beier, Philipp Khabo Koepsell

A production by Rike Flämig + Zwoisy Mears-Clarke. Funded by the Senate Department for Culture and Europe. Media partner: taz. die tageszeitung

Photo © Felipe Frozza