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18 June – 6 July 2025, Mülheim an der Ruhr, Cologne, Düsseldorf

Somewhere there's war

A person with long brown hair and black headphones looks into the distance. She is looking at an orange-colored house and another person in a striking costume, like a white, furry suit with black patches. The scene takes place outdoors, on a green meadow. The sky is clear and bright.
A woman stands in a modern kitchen with dark wooden cupboards. She is wearing a gray hoodie with the words “you are ENOUGH” and a heart symbol. The woman is leaning against a cupboard that contains a built-in oven. She has brown hair and stares into the distance with a fixed gaze.
A person in a dark, fluffy costume stands in a room surrounded by fog. The person has dark hair and is wearing headphones. The fog is illuminated in a reddish and violet light.
A person is lying on a light-colored tiled floor. They are wearing an olive green hoodie and pants with a camouflage pattern. Their head is resting on the floor and they appear to be asleep or unconscious. Three apples are scattered around them. A few pieces of furniture and part of a shoe can be seen out of focus in the background.

Studio Urbanistan

Somewhere there's war

Performance/Audio Installation

“There are successful poetic moments that allow you to feel how irritatingly delicate what we call peace is.” Steffen Georgi, Leipziger Volkszeitung, 22.11.2024

What place do real experiences of war – as a soldier, witness or refugee – and their unseen consequences have in our society today? And what do they tell us about the absurdity of escalating friend-or-foe narratives and scenarios of approaching threats?
Although many people in Germany have experienced war, those experiences often remain untold and invisible in everyday life. Instead, war is presented to us on the news as a daily tally of horrific facts, as a numbers of things destroyed and deaths, in blockbuster tales of heroism or as stories from the past. Between the pictures we see and real-life experience, between interruptions to daily routine and the war that cannot be spoken of there is a yawning gulf: a gulf in reality, experience and trauma. Studio Urbanistan is a label for performative events in urban spaces. In their new work, ‘Somewhere There's War’, a peaceful housing development in Düsseldorf becomes the everyday backdrop for a promenade performative audio installation. Three groups walk through three locations in the development in rotation, in a trilogy that has no beginning or end, where momentary glimpses flare up of the absurdity of what we cannot comprehend.

Dates

4 July, 19:00
5 July, 17:00
6 July, 16:00

Tickets

Regular price: 16 €
Reduced price: 11 €

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Venue

Model housing development, Wuppertal

Duration

90 minutes, with shuttle transfer approx. 180 minutes

Language

German

Informationen

A shuttle service from the FFT Düsseldorf to the Model housing development in Wuppertal will be offered on all days of the event. The show starts one hour after the shuttle departs.