haunted landscapes or the breathing out of earth

Claudia Bosse / theatercombinat: haunted landscapes or the breathing out of earth

Thu 24. bis Sat 26.10., 19.30h, Premiere, Performance 

Our planet is covered with violated landscapes bearing the signs of attacks such as wars, resource depletion, climatic changes and tectonic shifts. At the heart of "haunted landscapes or the breathing out of earth" are volcanoes, mining tunnels, minefields, eroded soils in the form of endangered or contaminated landscapes as well as their myths, experiences and our relationship to them. Enormous transformations of environments and the associated global effects are unearthed in the process, as are the traces of spirits that inhabit the landscapes and impact their connectedness with the (non-)human actors around them.  

So far, Claudia Bosse has developed performances, installations and interventions on fallow, wooded or ruined terrain as part of the "haunted landscape/s" series. With this new group piece, she connects her material of texts, bodies, sounds, movements and images with the rifts between us and our planet, and relates it to the theatre space. 

Artist Talk following the performance on Fri 25.10., performance scholar, dramaturge and member of the Curatorium Theatre, Dance & Performance of the City of Vienna) Sandra Umathum in conversation with Claudia Bosse. In German.