Rotterdam Presenta & Daniel Dominguez Teruel: Sinking Cities
In the organizer's words:
About the event:
With climate change comes a transformation of landscapes, ruptures in familiar ways of life, but also a curiosity for radical reorganization. What kind of landscapes are we facing and how do we want to deal with them? "Sinking Cities" is an international research project of the City Science Lab Hamburg, funded by the VW Foundation. An artistic training and research station is now opening at the Weserburg, where children and adults can get physically and emotionally fit for the transformation of their living space. Stine Hertel, Jan Rohwedder and Daniel Dominguez Teruel invite you to take a look at rising sea levels and encounter the forces of water. Stories are collected, knowledge is exchanged and the imagination is expanded.
In a performance and an installation, "Sinking Cities" roams through future urban coastal landscapes, movements of water and sand. A sound installation captures the force of the waves in a bass loudspeaker and lets them sweep over scenographies made of sand. Together with the audience, the three artists want to find a way of dealing with the forces of nature, change and farewell. They invite you to transformative training and contemplation in the midst of sandbags.
About the artists:
The performance platform Rotterdam Presenta is based in Düsseldorf and brings together international performance artists, choreographers, architects, light and sound designers. They work continuously on formats of performance, research and assembly. Rotterdam Presenta is currently working on active landscapes and the open-source construction of the temporary, accessible rehearsal stage THE STUDIO. rotterdampresenta.de
As a composer,Daniel Dominguez Teruel deals with questions of (national) belonging, division and community. In recent years, he has been working increasingly with a focus on the human voice. With the work LOVESONG, which deconstructs the German national anthem on a musical level, he was invited to the Impulse Theater Festival in 2022, among others. danieldominguez.cargo.site
The artistic work is part of the international research project "Sinking Cities: Cultural Heritage as a Transformational Resource" at the City Science Lab of HafenCity University Hamburg. In cooperation with the Research Institute for Sustainability Studies Potsdam, the Schwankhalle, the Rujak Center for Urban Studies in Jakarta and B'sarya for Arts in Alexandria, the participants are analyzing the potential of cultural heritage for climate adaptation processes and experimenting with different artistic-scientific approaches. Following exhibitions in Alexandria and Jakarta, Bremen is the third station of the art-science cooperation.
Location
Location | Theater
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