Skylla
In Collaboration with mit Franziska Gänsler, Lau Lukkarila, Lynn Takeo Musiol
Schauspielhaus, Hamburg, 2023
queer craft/ lesbian drama / HER*story
Pandora
In collaboration with Artemis Kondyli Roussou, Fran Edgerley, Dorothee Halbrock, Hallo: e.V. / PARKS, POSSY, Nuriye Tohermes, Aska Welford and others
Schauspielhaus, Hamburg, 2023
Queer Commons
Pandora (Greek: all-giver, from pan ‘all-‘, ‘total’ and doron ‘gift’, also translated as ‘all-gifted one’) was the first FLINTA* created from clay. Endowed with all talents for the seduction of humankind, dey dismissed all the beautiful evils of the world, leaving only hope behind. The world in capitalism. Or was Pandora the deity of the earth after all, in whose earthen vessel were all the gifts necessary for life? And a few cis guys once again retold the story? What we know: Humans at some point came up with the idea to commodify the earth itself, that is, to make it a commodity and also to release it for destruction in this logic of ownership. Other people, non-binary counterparts and hopefully also deities, are at the same time committed to preserving commons and creating new ones – sharing instead of exploiting, caring instead of dominating. The shape of these queer commons and how we can shape more is what we want to explore this evening, moving beyond the apathy of hope into non-binary space. In different modes of conversation, we will share transnational knowledge with each other, work together with the clay of the earth and on a ceramic sculpture, locate ourselves in the realities of the theater space, talk to each other, and hopefully end up dancing together.
Les Dramaturx/Lynn Takeo Musiol
Held:innenhood
In collaboration with Julia Tielke and Maria Umbach
Stadtteilzentrum KroKus, Hannover, 2018
residency/installation/video/performance
Kronsberg becomes Held:innenhood, in which all the disappeared, forgotten or yet undiscovered heroines are at home. Most of them are everyday heroines. In a flashy outfit, Kronia wanders through the district and gets into conversation with different women who live there. In short, comic-like videos, Kronia’s adventures on the Kronsberg are presented in an exhibition at the end of the residence. The resulting videos are brightly colored windows through which we look behind the everyday life of the city and discover special women and their superpowers in amazement.
Lügen
In collaboration with Charlotte Eifler, Gesine Hohman und Hilkje Kempka
Uferstudios, Berlin, 2017
installation/performance/video
Overlying. Outlying. Practise lying. We have made a sensational discovery that will knock your socks off. The missing piece of the puzzle has been found. We invite you to the lie counter and turn water into wine. Speculative, digital, sporty.
A work by cobratheater.cobra
Archiv für Schönheit und Verlust
In collaboration with Anne Brammen, Hilkje Kempka, Maria Umbach
Uferstudios/Parkaue Berlin, 2016 — 2017
residency/installation/performance
A place where stories of loss are collected, a place where farewells are celebrated, a place where you come out more beautiful than you went in.
The flea market as an allegory of farewells, provides the framework for a space that is laboratory and beauty studio in one. Here, losses are anonymously recorded, categorized and archived, hands washed and nails painted. A fragile floating map of farewell is created.
A year later, the archive is opened. In collaboration with the neighborhood of the Uferstudios Berlin, a polyphonic sound collage develops that bundles the collected losses of the previous year into a net-like listening station.
A work by cobratheater.cobra, created in the context of AUSUFERN
Es war trotzdem total schön
In collaboration with Rabea Schubert and Maria Umbach
LIBKEN, 2016
installation/performance/video
Dirty Hero Tunnel
(what are we doing after the orgy)
In collaboration with Julien Francis Bisesi, Anne Brammen, Hilkje Kempka, Rabea Schubert, Maria Umbach
Kampnagel, Hamburg, 2016
installation/performance
Okay. Okay. Okay. I got it. I’m supposed to go in there now. I’m supposed to take off my damn shoes and someone grabs me softly by the shoulder and says: Come.
A theatrical installation that demands physical engagement from the visitors and promises a unique experience.
A work by cobratheater.cobra, created in the context DRECK:EIN APPARAT
We. Work. Beautiful.
In collaboration with Julien Francis Bisesi, Anne Brammen, Martin Grünheit, Rabea Schubert, Maria Umbach
FFT, Düsseldorf, 2015
residency/installation/performance
In the context of a residency at MYKORRHIZA-EIN APPARAT, six adults, four children and two rabbits came together, founded and inhabited a shared workspace, a pop-up office, a laboratory. Self-experiment and durational performance at the same time. Everyday life and state of emergency run into each other. A growing installation that focuses on the themes of community/work/beauty. A cardboard disco moves through the city, a stalactite cave made of foam becomes a place of recreation for children, the offices of the theater become a community kitchen. At the end there is a festive neighborhood dinner, where what would otherwise have ended up in the trash is shared.
A work by cobratheater.cobra