Endgame Assembly
David Weber-Krebs
- Sat 20.6 15:00 — 18:00 Budatoren
Spoken in English
It is important to be present at the starting time of the performance. Afterwards you may freely leave and re-enter the space. There is no designated seating; you are free to move around and sit wherever you like.
Endgame Assembly focuses on the moment a world ends. What comes next remains entirely unknown. A naive romantic vision of the apocalypse seeps through contemporary discourse and politics, in debates on climate change and mass extinction. Perhaps a more truthful approach is to sit with the imperceptible, with those shifts that reshape the world before we have found words for them. Endgame Assembly dwells in moments when we still believe in the continuity of the world, while the ground beneath us has already cracked.
Upon arrival, the spectators are invited to move freely between two distinct but communicating spaces. In the first space Sonia Si Ahmed, whose voice is fragile and fragmented is telling stories of worlds drifting and shifting: a volcanic eruption, melting ice caps, a pandemic and its aftermath, an afternoon shopping in October. These accounts are interwoven with literary and scientific references, creating a poetic constellation of stories that all resist completion. Everything Sonia tells is imminent, at the verge of happening.
The second space, created and designed in collaboration with the artist Maria Jerez, functions as an immersive environment — a landscape of fabrics that move like a thousand skins slowly shedding. This landscape is alive and drifting, responding directly to the words spoken by Sonia in the first space.
Credits
performance Sonia Si Ahmed, Paula Almiron, David Weber-Krebs spatial design Maria Jerez dramaturgy Jonas Rutgeerts thanks to Petar Sarjanović, Jan Fedinger, Marko Gutić Mižimakov, Famke Dhont residencies Kunstenwerkplaats, Monty Kunstencentrum, Kaap Kunstencentrum production Outline co-production C-Takt, kunstencentrum BUDA with the support of Flanders, State of the Arts