SENIOR SUITE

In the organizer's words:

Trigger warning: stroboscopic effects, volume, thematization of death
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In seven movements, a performer explores death and restart, navigating through a simulation of her own life. This year's START OFF PRODUKTION questions the idea of life as a fixed timeline in which all decisions are supposedly final. A performance like a video game that accumulates life experiences in which death does not mean the end of the game, but a
a new beginning at a predefined point.

Together with performer Monika Barth, Muhr/Plenio reflect on how much we trust images and time, using them as a projection surface for concepts of immortality, life after death, and the gamification of reality.

Senior Suite is the first chapter in a series of pieces by the music-theater duo Muhr/Plenio that reflect on time perception, metascores, and documentary theater as a means of creating realities.

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English

All decisions have been made

Along 7 movements, one performer experiences death and respawning, as a way of navigating through a simulator of her own life. Senior Suite questions the idea of life as a fixed timeline, in which decisions are supposedly final and have an influence on everything that follows. The piece is structured as a videogame, an expensive device that accumulates life experiences, in which death does not mean the end of the game but a new start at a predefined point.

Muhr/Plenio together with performer Monika Barth reflect on how much we trust images and time, and use them as a projection surface for concepts of immortality, life after death, and the gamification of reality.

Senior Suite is the first chapter of a series of pieces by the music-theatre duo Muhr/Plenio that reflect on time perception, meta-scores, and documentation as a way of creating realities.
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Artistic direction, music, light, video: Diego Muhr, Robin Plenio / Performance: Monika Barth / Technical direction: Sönke C. Herm
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Supported by: Hamburgische Kulturstiftung, Mara & Holger Cassens Stiftung, LICHTHOF Stiftung