«Dry Down - Requiem for a Lost Room» von Déguénon/Gränicher/Wetter
The office is dead, long live the office! An olfactory farewell ritual to a space that could hardly be more unspectacular, yet shapes lifes and careers in sometimes absurd ways.
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The site-specific installation performance ‘Dry Down’ invites you to a final Apéro in the office. Whether it's an open-plan space or at the end of a long corridor, the office is a place of regulated work, permeated by codes and hierarchies. Despite the many rules, the private sphere always pushes its way to the surface. Biographies are carved into height-adjustable desks, movement patterns are imprinted in fitted carpets, and interpersonal relationships shape the ergonomic chairs.
But what happens to this place when more and more people move to home offices or become digital nomads? When the private sphere no longer seeps into the workspace, but work creeps into the private sphere? The office begins to rot, lying fallow, ready to die. In ‘Dry Down’, lamentations and smells carry its demise, and the audience is invited to a farewell and a celebration of what remains.
‘Dry Down – Requiem for a Lost Room’ is a collaboration with the Art x Science Office at the University of Zurich.
Aufführungen
Baslerpark, Zurich
Mo, June 12, 8 - 9:30 pm – Premiere followed by a snack and drink reception
Sa, June 13, 8 - 9:30 pm
Mo, June 15, 8 - 9:30 pm
Di, June 16, 8 - 9:30 pm
Tickets
Information on accessibility and language
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Stepless access
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Language: Very little spoken German
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Content Notes: The performance features scenes depicting farewell and mourning rituals.
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Sound: The sound may become loud at times.
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Smell: The performance makes extensive and continuous use of smells, some of which may be unpleasant.
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As the production is currently in development, further information regarding the show’s accessibility will be added on an ongoing basis in the run-up to the premiere.
Credits
Performance, Choreography: Bea Nichele & Tejus Menon
Sound, Performance: Mira Hirtler
Styling: Nadine Räber
Scent: Manon Cloé Gäschlin
Concept, Artistic Direction: Eulalie Déguénon, Lucia Salomé Gränicher, Noé Wetter
About the artists
Eulalie Déguénon, Lucia Salomé Gränicher and Noé Wetter share a desire to understand space as an actor. Between installation and performance, their work is dedicated to the sensory mediation of existing everyday spaces. Together with invited artists, they are searching for experiences in which slight sensory distortions shift one’s attention.
Supported by
Kanton Zürich - Fachstelle Kultur, Aargauer Kuratorium, Art x Science Office der Universität Zürich, Elisabeth Weber Stiftung, Stiftung Anne-Marie Schindler, Fonds des Werkraums Warteck pp, Casa di Rosa