Glam The Future

Highly anticipated: The Werkraum opens today with a completely new look, transforming itself into a modular space concept for theatre and art! Artist Eva Veronica Born descended into the Munich Kammerspiele's storage facility and worked her magic. Stage elements, old dance carpets and parts of the audience tribune have been used to create a transformable space – in collaboration with the nationwide sustainability initiative Fonds Zero.

We are celebrating this on two evenings and inaugurating the Werkraum with texts, performances and music. With old acquaintances and new faces. What we need and give on this evening is time...

... to let the newly designed space sink in and listen to stories that are or could be inscribed in the space.

... to talk to architect and stage designer Eva Veronica Born about her spatial concept and design.

... to listen to an intimate, moving performance that questions the image of humans as the centre of the universe: singing drag cow Soya the Cow presents a musical programme full of emotional songs. What would our lives look like if we stopped cutting others into pieces?...

... to immerse ourselves in the rich soundscape of Berlin-based sound artist MAF, who invites us to engage in an atmospheric meditation on our observable surroundings. The natural world resounds, reinterpreted through algorithmic perception.

... to explore the question in a panel discussion: Is it even possible to glam the future? What role can artistic strategies play in shaping the future?...

... to round off the evening with a text performance of ‘Die Grünen Kinder’ (The Green Children) by Olga Tokarczuk. With actors from the ensemble and students from the Otto Falckenberg School.

And when everything has been said, we dance to the re- and upcycled sounds of internationally sought-after DJ Mehmet Aslan. At the very end, Booty Carell jumps into the dance ring and plays vinyl without plasticisers.

On the second day of our workshop's grand reopening, we invite you to a performance evening where we will explore how we can reshape our relationship with planet Earth.

BiPoC artist Martha Hincapie Charry assumes that the Earth is female and, as an organism, is constantly exposed to the extractivism of the global North and the abuses of corporations, the biggest contributors to climate change. With "HECATOMB II - Integration: movements and rituals for the renewal of the world," she takes up this ecofeminist perspective and at the same time addresses current crises in the relationship between humans and nature, pleading for mutual dependence, connectedness and joint survival, thus attempting to decolonise the stage – to transform it into a place of listening, encounter and balance.

In the second part of the evening, Soya the Cow invites you to a glittering queer examination of our planet with the tragicomic drag show ‘I hate my name’. Soya the Cow looks at the global connections between cattle breeding, colonialism and ecocide, without forgetting that we must always approach utopias for a new world with humour.

Afterwards, curator Sophie Eisenried pops the corks with the artists during a Prosecco talk