Video Installation | Forum Theatertreffen 1965–2025

Zoom Out: A Surreal Snapshot of the World

By and with Amitesh Grover (IF 2013)

A person with a cloak over their head and body on which the world map is depicted.

Zoom Out: A Surreal Snapshot of the World © Created by Grover using DALL-E

Open every day from one hour before the first event of the day

In English

Free admission

Director Amitesh Grover invites his colleagues from the International Forum to a digital playground, where they collaborate to create a powerful graphic commentary on our globalised world.

Opening with performance: Saturday, 3.5.2025, 17:00

Several alumni of the International Forum – separated by thousands of kilometres and a few generations – connect in real time through a digital medium to participate in an instruction-based gaming event during the opening of “Forum Theatertreffen 1965–2025”. The alumni respond to provocations by director and conductor Amitesh Grover and slowly reveal their social location and their artistic reality. Grover creates an interactive dialogue connecting the alumni’s spontaneous expressions of poetry, sketches, statements and actions and creates a surreal snapshot of the world accompanied by live music. This gathering is a performative act formed by discovery, surprise, chaos and non-comprehension, conjuring a reflection of our current globalized world.

After the live event, the performance is on display as a video-installation throughout the festival.

By and with

Amitesh Grover

And

Joshua Alabi (IF 2023)  Author, Director
Ramsès Alfa Bawibadi (IF 2007)  Independent Actor
Martine Dennewald (IF 2006)  Co-Artistic Director Festival TransAmériques (FTA)

Thomas Engel (IF 1999)  Former Artistic Director International Theater Institute (ITI)
Pathipon (Miss Oat) (IF 2022)  Director, Performer
Nada Sabet (IF 2015)
– Director, Presenter
Zoe Svendsen (IF 2009)  Dramaturg, Translator
Nadia Tsulukidze (IF 2011) – Performer

Commissioned for “Forum Theatertreffen 1965–2025”.