Cult Baby: against SUFFOCATION

/ Concert-Performance / 18+ yrs / German + English / zeitraumexit @ T6/18 / 

How does history live on? A chance discovery in the Mannheim archives: the mention of ‘a few wicked women’ in the Ortenau witch register. Schutterwald, south-west Germany, 1557: the story of Anna Sütterlin, the name of (my) great-grandmother, and a pre-feminist alliance nipped in the bud, if you will. Following the trail of historical witch tales, internet aesthetics and contemporary witch hunts, the böse blumen seek self-determined ecstasy, resistance and care, conjuring up a witch-house rave.

By and with: Nana Bauernfeind, Lea Bäurle, Christina Bergemann, Sebastian Horn, Gina Lauser, Rebecca Okechukwu, Leya Christin Wüllner, Lola Yolanda Zbornik.

Sensory stimuli: strobe lights, intense lighting effects, stage fog, natural materials that may cause allergic reactions, high volume
Note on content: The performance explores themes relating to the complex issue of sexualised discrimination. It features explicit, and in some cases sexualised, depictions of the body and bodily fluids, and makes use of religious symbolism.

“Cult Baby: against suffocation” is part of the performative program celebrating zeitraumexit´s 25th jubilee. zeitraumexit turns 25! 25 years of performance art, experimental laboratory, aesthetic research, projects across all genres and socio-cultural projects. 25 years of dazzling, risk, and the unexpected. We celebrate a quarter of a century of zeitraumexit with a performative Jubilee program that explores time and temporality. 
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Photos: Sebastian Horn + Leya Christin Wüllner