The Hunger

Macras

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The Hunger is an exploration of the phenomenon of excess inspired by historical events fictionalised in the novel The Witness by Argentinian writer Juan José Saer. The Hunger follows the European colonisers‘ trails in the Rio de la Plata region in South America at the beginning of the 16th century. A group of indigenes attacks Spanish colonisers in the north of present-day Argentina. Only one person survives and becomes part of the Colastiné tribal community. After he gets freed by fellow Spaniards later on, he reflects and remembers his perceptions during the time he spent with the tribe.

In The Hunger, cannibalistic rituals overlap with different forms of greed, from colonialism and consumption frenzy in today’s capitalist societies to the hyperproduction of an endless Now on social media. Cyclically recurring, collective rituals are used to establish a (feeble) sense of reality, a kind of „normality“ following their own social rules and conventions. The „transformation of taboo into totem“ finds an echo in new forms of shifting boundaries, while our own privacy is swallowed up by the representational logics of the digital world.

Does reality only exist if you’re observing it?

Artists/Collaborators: Candaş Baş, Adaya Berkovich, Emil Bordás, Alexandra Bódi, Chloe Chua, Oksana Chupryniuk, Deborah Dalla Valle, Yuya Fujinami, Leonie Hahn, WooSang Jeon, Khaled, Kathrin Krottenthaler, Simon Lesemann, Robert Lippok, Moritz Lucht, Kristina Lösche-Löwensen, Constanza Macras, Greta Markurt, Slavna Martinovic, Carmen Mehnert, Thulani Lord Mgidi, Steph Quinci, Anne Ratte-Polle, Tamara Saphir, Miki Shoji, Kevin Sock, Shiori Sumikawa, Constanza Macras (Autor/in), Candaş Baş (Von und mit), Adaya Berkovich (Von und mit), Alexandra Bódi (Von und mit), Emil Bordás (Von und mit), Chloe Chua (Von und mit), Oksana Chupryniuk (Von und mit), Deborah Dalla Valle (Von und mit), WooSang Jeon (Von und mit), Yuya Fujinami (Von und mit), Khaled (Von und mit), Moritz Lucht (Von und mit), Thulani Lord Mgidi (Von und mit), Steph Quinci (Von und mit), Anne Ratte-Polle (Von und mit), Miki Shoji (Von und mit), Shiori Sumikawa (Von und mit), Greta Markurt (Live-Kamera), Kathrin Krottenthaler (LIve-Kamera), Constanza Macras (Konzept, Regie & Choreographie), Simon Lesemann (Bühne), Slavna Martinovic (Kostüme), Robert Lippok (Musik), Kristina Lösche-Löwensen (Komposition Chormusik), Kevin Sock (Licht), Carmen Mehnert (Dramaturgie), Tamara Saphir (Dramaturgie), Leonie Hahn (Dramaturgie)

Next date:

• Date Saturday, 07/December/2024 19:30 bis 21:30 (1 more date)
• Venue Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz - Großes Haus
• Address Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, 10178 Berlin-Mitte