Crowd Simulation Room
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30 sep19:00 - 20:15TR25 Schouwburg, RotterdamGrote Zaal
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1 okt19:00 - 20:15TR25 Schouwburg, RotterdamGrote zaal ongeplaceerd
Who are ‘we’? And what would the world look like if we dissolved the conceived boundaries between humans, animals, plants and things?
Situated in a playful technological area BVDS proposes to let go of our focus on the individual, and instead to practice the creation of a collective body. In a playful manner, inspired by the swarm and the herd, Crowd simulation room investigates the possibilities of humankind to connect itself to the bigger picture. In a practice room amidst people, animals, plants and things the visitor engages in The game of life, within a simulation that does not promote the survival of the fittest, but rather makes room for co-existence.
Crowd simulation room is part of the four-piece Rooms for transformation, which will be built by BVDS in the coming years. In these transformation rooms, together with the audience the makers dream a new world into being by making disorienting, light-hearted, confronting proposals to change the role of mankind on this planet. The reality that will appear is the reality we grant our attention to. With this uplifting principle at the outset, BVDS creates rooms to put these ideas into practice. For, as human beings, we are always ‘in the making’: our current human form is not the endpoint of evolution. BVDS dwells on and moves around the question of how we as contemporary western human beings can and must transform ourselves.
Team
Concept & regie Suzan Boogaerdt en Bianca van der Schoot Kostuums Lotte Goos Componist Wessel Schrik Lichtontwerp Theun Mosk Video- en ruimtelijk ontwerp Rodrik Biersteker Uitvoering ruimtelijk ontwerp Marjolijn Brouwer Techniek Jaap Schledorn & Wout Panis Performance Tim van Dongen, Sjaid Fonce, Charlotte Gillain & Clara Ottignon Productieleider Milou Smit Technisch producent Siemen van der Werf | Ruimtetijd Producent Lene Grooten en Marc Meijer Marketing & Communicatie Shantih Lalta Coproductie Theater Rotterdam Mede mogelijk is gemaakt door Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst, Fonds21
CROWD STIMULATION ROOM wordt mede mogelijk gemaakt door ACT, een Europees samenwerkingsproject rond ecologie, klimaatverandering en sociale transitie. In een tijdperk van klimaatafbraak, massale uitsterving en toenemende ongelijkheid, bundelen we onze krachten in een project over hoop, waarbij verbindingen tussen brede perspectieven en lokale initiatieven centraal staan.
CROWD STIMULATION ROOM is a part of ACT: Art, Climate, Transition, a European cooperation project on ecology, climate change and social transition. In an era of climate breakdown, pandemics, mass extinction and growing inequalities, we join our forces in a project on hope: connecting broad perspectives with specific, localised possibilities, ones that invite or demand that we ACT.