EVICTION
2023 | Berlin
Every year millions of people all around the world are evicted from their homes by forces of state and capital. At the same time, conflicts about public space are intensifying. People stand up for their human right for housing. Eviction is a staging of the critical moment in which a group of people refuses to evacuate a building and a trained unit is deployed to evict them. This encounter symbolises the violence inherent to land ownership and territoriality, and encapsulates layers upon layers of injustice, oppression, rage, pain, and indifference.
A large audience finds itself on the street, next to a building facade, engrossed in a battle scene on a 1:1 scale. The action is composed of group formations, brutal physical encounters, aerial choreography, documentary audio, pop music, live video coverage and scenographic elements made out of construction waste and protest materials.
Eviction both re-enacts and pre-enacts practices of protest and resistance, moving on the spectrum between the aesthetic and the political, the spectacular and the useful, the documentary and the forthcoming.
Supported by the NATIONAL PERFORMANCE NETWORK - STEPPING OUT, funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media as part of the initiative NEUSTART KULTUR. Support Program Dance. The mediation programme was supported by the Federal Agency for Civic Education. Eviction premiered at the Israel Festival 2022.
Concept, direction, choreography: Omer Krieger
Produced by the Curatorial Collective for Public Art
Presented at the Maxim Gorki Theater
Performers: Laure Fleitz, Katherine Maria Gorsuch, Yulia Mezhetskaya, Marcos Zoe Nacar, Rima Nasereddin, Victor Manuel Gonzalez Reyes, Luana Rossetti, Melodi Yüce Movement Movement Choir: Cochon de Cauchemar, Kate Manias, TL Morrison, Alina Koval, Sarah Mach, Nyemba M'membe, Ivy Fleur, Anna Blume, Louis-César Brunhy, Fei Kaldrack, Heli, Annika Utzelmann, Mahalia Horvath, Amanita Zinaida Vulvina, Käthe Lange, Juliane Harbst, Gelsomino
Dramaturgy: Yael Sherill
Additional choreography & rehearsal management: Tomer Zirkilevich
Set design: Franz Thöricht & Jascha Kretschmann
Costume design: Anna Mirkin
Sound design: Binya Reches
Production management: Uwe & Silke Buhrdorf, die wellenmaschine
Assistant director: Filip Rutkowski
Dramaturgy assistance: Clemens Zoller
Stunt coordination: Florian Hotz
Project administration: Lianne Mol
Live Video and editing: Rebellab
Project assistance: Judith Paletta
www.gorki.de/en/eviction-public-action-by-omer-krieger
Every year millions of people all around the world are evicted from their homes by forces of state and capital. At the same time, conflicts about public space are intensifying. People stand up for their human right for housing. Eviction is a staging of the critical moment in which a group of people refuses to evacuate a building and a trained unit is deployed to evict them. This encounter symbolises the violence inherent to land ownership and territoriality, and encapsulates layers upon layers of injustice, oppression, rage, pain, and indifference.
A large audience finds itself on the street, next to a building facade, engrossed in a battle scene on a 1:1 scale. The action is composed of group formations, brutal physical encounters, aerial choreography, documentary audio, pop music, live video coverage and scenographic elements made out of construction waste and protest materials.
Eviction both re-enacts and pre-enacts practices of protest and resistance, moving on the spectrum between the aesthetic and the political, the spectacular and the useful, the documentary and the forthcoming.
Supported by the NATIONAL PERFORMANCE NETWORK - STEPPING OUT, funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media as part of the initiative NEUSTART KULTUR. Support Program Dance. The mediation programme was supported by the Federal Agency for Civic Education. Eviction premiered at the Israel Festival 2022.
Concept, direction, choreography: Omer Krieger
Produced by the Curatorial Collective for Public Art
Presented at the Maxim Gorki Theater
Performers: Laure Fleitz, Katherine Maria Gorsuch, Yulia Mezhetskaya, Marcos Zoe Nacar, Rima Nasereddin, Victor Manuel Gonzalez Reyes, Luana Rossetti, Melodi Yüce Movement Movement Choir: Cochon de Cauchemar, Kate Manias, TL Morrison, Alina Koval, Sarah Mach, Nyemba M'membe, Ivy Fleur, Anna Blume, Louis-César Brunhy, Fei Kaldrack, Heli, Annika Utzelmann, Mahalia Horvath, Amanita Zinaida Vulvina, Käthe Lange, Juliane Harbst, Gelsomino
Dramaturgy: Yael Sherill
Additional choreography & rehearsal management: Tomer Zirkilevich
Set design: Franz Thöricht & Jascha Kretschmann
Costume design: Anna Mirkin
Sound design: Binya Reches
Production management: Uwe & Silke Buhrdorf, die wellenmaschine
Assistant director: Filip Rutkowski
Dramaturgy assistance: Clemens Zoller
Stunt coordination: Florian Hotz
Project administration: Lianne Mol
Live Video and editing: Rebellab
Project assistance: Judith Paletta
www.gorki.de/en/eviction-public-action-by-omer-krieger
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