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Bab, siu archiv ed jeu

- by Asa Hendry

Festival Travers I Premiere September 2025 / World Premiere

The piece "Bab, siu archiv ed jeu" tells the story of a fragmented language left behind by a farmer to his son. It's a story closely intertwined with the landscape and silence. Three performers of different ages give it a voice. Representing the son, they become an archive of the father's untold stories. (How) can a vicious cycle spanning generations be broken?

 

The production traces the extent of transgenerational trauma in agriculture and searches for the remnants of the violence that once befell many shepherd children in the Grisons Alps. Over the course of the evening, traces of a decaying language become visible and audible, one that speaks of loneliness and longs for connection.

 

The play is performed in various Romansh idioms and German.

Report in the Engadiner Post

Director: Rebekka Bangerter

Text: Asa Hendry

with: Lorenzo Polin, Bistgaun Capaul and Lorin Könz and an ad-hoc men's choir; musical direction: Dominic Röthlisberger

Stage and lighting: Lukas Sander

Costumes: Franca Manz

Dramaturgy: Selina Beghetto

Assistant Director: Riikka Läser

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HORROR VACUI

- a live typed performance in collaboration with an AI

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DAS Theatre, Amsterdam I Theater Monty, Antwerp

2023

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The curtain opens. A cursor is blinking on an empty screen. Only the clicking of the keyboard is breaking the silence as we embark on a sensual walk through the forest.

Rebekka is writing a performance, exploring the power of language and the politicallity of authorship and creativity. But while she is still typing and thinking, text generating AI’s have found their way into our everyday use, creating much more text than her - in much less time. Producing text has become posthuman.

What does it mean to create in a time of constant technological updates? Can we still allow ourselves to get lost? To read between the lines and slow down?

Inspired by techno-feminist perspectives and writing strategies, horror vacui invites you on a humorous, poetic and critical journey on the entanglement of human, text, machine - from female typewriters to disembodied AI’s. What reality do we write with the tools we create? Who is writing? - And who keeps doing the work in the background?

An evening between edited and deleted thoughts, dominating datasets, collective imagination and our own bodily presence.

 

 

Premiere October 2023, Theater Monty Antwerp

Research Phase: DAS Theatre, 2022 / 2023

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Concept / Text / Performance: Rebekka Bangerter

Dramaturgy: Henriette Festerling

Scenography and light design: Hendrik Walther

Mentoring: Joachim Robbrecht

Eye Exterior: Emke Idema

Costume Advice: Daphne De Winkel

Consulting Isadora: Chun Shing Au / Jimmy Grima

Technical Support: Durante Van Kuijk

With special thanks to Edit Kaldor
 

© rebekka bangerter

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