In the organizer's words:

a co-production of Studio Julian Warner, Kaserne Basel, Donaufestival Krems, Belluard Bollwerk, Burg Hülshoff - Center for Literature (CFL), Theater Rampe, Münchner Kammerspiele and studiobühneköln

as part of "BEYOND REALITIES - EUROPÄISCHE POSITIONEN"
a thematic focus of studiobühneköln
in the Temporary Gallery

A black artist realizes that he has become a soldier. He enters the stage as an art worker. In the struggle for representation and resources, he is given a weapon and learns that the same applies to art: the liberation of the occupied is also the terror of the occupiers. But is cultural warfare war?

Few have written as lucidly about violence in a fragmented world as Frantz Omar Fanon. A psychiatrist and Marxist from Martinique, he was convinced that the dehumanization caused by European colonialism could not be overcome through negotiation and compromise, but only by destroying it. Fanon's justification of anti-colonial violence was received by leftists worldwide, from the Black Panther Party to the RAF, and is still the subject of controversial debate today. When and in what context is it necessary to organize violence or its defence?

On stage, the black artist relives his transformation into a soldier. Through the interplay of language and the physical power of the percussion, he questions the historical situation and explores his relationship to violence.


Concept, performance and music: Julian Warner
Dramaturgy: Veronika Maurer
Music and live percussion: Markus Acher
Voice: Veronica Burnuthian
Lighting and technology: Dennis Dita Kopp
Artistic production management: Sabine Klötzer
Translations: Veronica Burnuthian, Anna McCarthy

Supported by the Knaton Freiburg