LIQUID - Teil 2 des Zyklus 4 Life: Erde Wasser Feuer Luft von WEHR51

In the organizer's words:

Awarded the KURT HACKENBERG PRIZE for Political Theater 2024

WEHR51 stages a performative media walk that combines exhibition elements, video/animations, Rhine water compositions, scientific findings, mythical and literary images and places them in socio-political and provocative contexts. Guided by a narrator's voice over headphones and a performer, the audience embarks on a journey from Ebertplatz to the Rhine, encountering the history of water, its memory and its involuntary recollections.

Start: Ebertplatz at the "small container"
Destination: Rhine at the Bastei

"Slowly, beguilingly and filled with admonishing voices, the water as the main protagonist of 'LIQUID' makes its way from Ebertplatz to the nearby Rhine. ... For around 80 minutes, ensemble members and audience embark on a scientific-mythological journey to the beginnings and already looming ends of life." (Choices, July 2024)

"The concept of artistic intervention in public space comes ... comes as close to his idea of initiating new perspectives for social and political action as is rarely seen. Listening to the water: a political act in the spirit of the Kurt Hackenberg Prize. With this award, the jury recognizes not only the artistic quality, but also the cleverness and courage of WEHR51 in turning the city and its river into a stage to reflect on new perspectives for the urgent political task of protecting and preserving natural resources." (2024 Dr. Sandra Nuy, jury member)

Artistic direction: Andrea Bleikamp, Jens Standke, Rosi Ulrich
Director: Andrea Bleikamp
Texts/dramaturgy: Rosi Ulrich
Video: Jens Standke Jens Standke
Composition/underwater recordings: Geraint Whittacker
Production management: Anke Schmitz
With: Asta Nechajute, Anna Möbus/Alina Gause
Costume: Paula Noller
Assistant director: Gina Bensch
Lighting design: Jan Wiesbrock
Technology: Jan Kutscher

Supported by the Cultural Office of the City of Cologne, NRW Landesbüro Freie Darstellende Künste, Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia.

In co-production with Freihandelszone Köln, SEEBRÜCKE, SEA-EYE, MOTOKI_KOLLEKTIV

In cooperation with DER KLEINE CONTAINER, project space of the city of Cologne

Price information:

or reservation via info{at}wehr51.com or 0160 8020996