burnbabyburn - a multimedia experience

In the organizer's words:

A multimedia experience by Katja Gaudard & crtcl collective w/ Katharina Shakina, Exerzierhalle Oldenburg.

In the fall of 1430, a bitter war has been raging in Europe for eight decades. Two thirds of France are occupied by the English. In two bloody campaigns, a seventeen-year-old girl leads France under her flag in a desperate attempt to defend itself against the occupiers. The story of Joan of Arc is legendary: celebrated as a heroine and savior of France, her life ended brutally - condemned as a heretic and witch, burned at the stake.

After a period in which she was almost forgotten, she returned to cultural memory in the 18th century. But Joan was never just a historical figure: instrumentalized by the church and royal powers during her lifetime, she later became an ideological projection screen. In modern times, she has been turned into a symbolic figure by a wide variety of groups, a myth, an event exploited by the media. But how does a political figure become a myth - and ultimately a political tool? And what does failure mean in this context?

Was Johanna's death at the stake a symbol of her failure - or do we rather fail when we bow to the circumstances and ideological claims to power of the present? What doctrines do we use to measure success and failure?

Who Johanna really was remains a mystery. But Katharina Shakina and crtcl collective want to celebrate her and her story with a multimedia theater performance and symbolically return the story to her.

Director, concept and version: Katja Gaudard
Composition and sound design: Lyhre
Director of Photography: Saehyun Kim
Stage: Georgios Kolios
Costumes: Heather Rampone-Gulder
Animation: Moritz Müller
Lighting design: Olaf Brunkhorst
Media technology: David Massonet
Sound: Oliver Eck
Graphic design: Daniel Hanke(DHMC.STUDIO)
Choreographic consulting: Eleonora Fabrizi
Coordination DigitEx: Łukasz Ławicki
Dramaturgical support: Verena Katz / Oskar Smollny