Performance | Shifting Perspectives
Fin de Mission / Ohne Auftrag leben
International Coproduction Fund Goethe-Institut
Shifting Perspectives
Fin de Mission / Ohne Auftrag leben © Stephan Glagla
This German-Cameroonian OPER(ATION) on the memory of slavery tracks the aesthetic representation, contextualisation and deconstruction of Cameroon’s colonial heritage. Laments and dirges, workers’ and resistance songs and European opera are woven into a polyphonic soundscape between reality and fiction: A journey of research into the rise and glamour of the colonialists and the misery and trauma of the colonised.
By and with
OTHNI Laboratoire de Théâtre de Yaoundé (Cameroon) and kainkollektiv (Germany)
Co-production Ringlokschuppen Ruhr, FFT Düsseldorf, Kampnagel Hamburg and Doual’Art Douala.
Funded by the Ministry for Family, Children, Youth, Culture and Sport of North-Rhine Westphalia, the Kunststiftung NRW, the conceptual support of the Fonds Darstellende Künste e.V. from means of the federal government, the International Coproduction Fund of the Goethe-Institut and the Goethe-Institut Cameroon, the Regionalverband Ruhr in the Programm Interkultur Ruhr as well as the Ministra for Art and Culture Cameroon.