what about: fuego: sie wachen über dich – Sophiensæle | Independent Theater in Berlin

what about: fuego:
sie wachen über dich

Three people wearing animal masks move across several platforms. One wears a white mask with long ears, another a black bird mask, and another a dark animal mask. Cool blue light shines through a curtain in the background.
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In sie wachen über dich (they are watching you), the collective what about: fuego brings their deceased grandmothers onto the stage to look into the future through their past. Together, they explore strategies of resistance against digital surveillance economies. 

Societies have long been under surveillance. But today prevails an economic system that feeds on our personal data, emotions, desires, and bodies. Human experiences themselves have become the raw material of capitalism.

In a multimedia performance, the collective examines how corporations profit from our data, predicting and influencing our (consumer) behavior. Together with cyberfeminist sounds from ultramorbidi, the performance raises the question: How can we reclaim technology to evade surveillance capitalism?

Evening information

The information on accessibility is still in progress and will be updated as soon as possible. If any questions remain unanswered until then, please feel free to contact the communication department at barrierefreiheit@sophiensaele.com or 030 27 89 00 35. Please note that details may change by the day of the event. Therefore, if you find out after you have purchased your ticket that the performance is no longer accessible to you, you can contact us for a ticket return at ticketing@sophiensaele.com or 030 27 89 00 45 until 5 business days after the event (Monday through Friday between 10am and 6pm).

Duration

  • Approx. 80 minutes without intermission

Language

  • Spoken language: English, German, Chilean Spanish, Swiss German (mainly German)
  • With English, German, and Spanish surtitles
  • The audience talk on February 27 will take place in spoken English.

Lighting

  • In the upper rows, spotlights on individual seats may dazzle audience members
  • The lighting alternates between bright and dark

Sound

  • There is electronic live music with vocals

Interaction

  • Individual audience members will be addressed during the course of the play. Seats will not be left for interaction.

Early boarding

  • There is the option of Early boarding. A loudspeaker announcement will draw attention to this.

Tickets

  • Reservations can be made via the ticket telephone at 030 283 52 66, Monday to Friday from 4pm-6pm
  • Via the online ticket shop
  • At the box office

You can also find more information about accessibility at the house here.

Artistic direction, performance: what about: fuego (María F. Giacaman Hasbún, Friedel Hänsel, Linda Mira Bühlmann)
Set, costume: Andreina Vieira dos Santos
Sound: ultramorbidi (nate wessalowski, Kenji Solano Arévalo)
Interactive design: Friedel Hänsel
Dramaturgy: Ignacia González Torres
Activist-academic contributions: nate wessalowski
Light: Nicolás Russi Andretta
Production management: Christina Lutz, Daniela Guse
Press & public relations: Miriam Bini Schmidt

A production by what about: fuego in co-production with Sophiensæle and ROXY Birsfelden. Funded by the Fonds Darstellende Künste with resources from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media, as well as by the project funding from the Cultural Office of the state capital of Hannover and Stiftung Niedersachsen. Media partners: Missy Magazine, Siegessäule, taz.

what about: fuego is an interdisciplinary and intercultural artist collective founded in 2020, with members from Chile, Germany, and Switzerland. It works from an intersectional feminist perspective on social uprising, globality, and injustice, and understandstheatre as a space for shared questioning. Since 2021, it has produced the works Kriegsrahmen, IM ANFANG WAR DER ZAUN and TEAR GAS – A Safe Weapon.

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