Performance
A damaged hand puppet shits as unabashedly as it eats. It has a lock on its ventriloquist. As the embodiment of its chronical inflammatory bowel disease, it has just one thing in mind: He’s going to bleed! The unequal duo sparks a relationship thriller on undigested rests, fuels speechlessness in the face of egregious stories of sickness and plunges into a shit storm on working at the theater. For his most recent project, the performance and action artist Hendrik Quast learned the art of ventriloquism to deal with the chronical inflammatory bowel disease Colitis ulcerosa. In a conversation with the disease, new ways of speaking about and depicting chronical illness as well as unusual spaces of humor are developed for the ill and healthy audience. Everyday experiences with bowel diseases are brought to the stage with outstanding entertainment value, and questions of visibly and invisibly marked, chronically ill bodies are renegotiated. Hendrik Quast declares the bowels a stage and asks who actually has the prerogative of interpretation over the sick body—medicine, the patient or the illness itself.
TEXT, PERFORMANCE, CONCEPT Hendrik Quast
DRAMATURGY Alex Hennig
ARTISTIC ASSISTANT Michel Wagenschütz
PUPPET, CUSTUME, MASK Christina Neuss
STAGE Jonas Droste
SOUND Toben Piel
LIGHT Maika Knoblich
VIDEO ADVISOR Rodrik Biersteker
DRAMATURGIC ADVISOR Marcus Dross
VENTRILOQUISM COACH Marcus Geuss
PR Yven Augustin
GRAPHIC DESIGN Christina Mäckelburg
FREELANCE COLLABORATOR Noah Beeler
TECHNICAL DIRECTOR Hendrik Borowski
PRODUCTION MANAGER Lisa Gehring
In co-production with SOPHIENSÆLE Berlin, Kampnagel Hamburg and Künstlerhaus Mousonturm. Supported by the Senate Department for Culture and Europe of the State of Berlin and by the Hauptstadtkulturfonds. With the support of the residency program of Cima Città (CH). The project was part of the residency program schloss bröllin e.V., supported by the Ministry of Education, Science and Culture of the State of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and the County of Vorpommern-Greifswald. Supported by the NATIONAL PERFORMANCE NETWORK Guest performance support theater, funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media, as well as the Ministries of Culture and the Arts of the Federal States.