Video Installation | Forum Theatertreffen 1965–2025
Zoom Out: A Surreal Snapshot of the World
By and with Amitesh Grover (IF 2013), New Delhi
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.
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
And
Joshua Alabi (IF 2023) – Author, Director in Nigeria
Ramsès Bawibadi Alfa (IF 2007) – Independent Actor in Togo
Martine Dennewald (IF 2006) – Co-Artistic Director Festival TransAmériques (FTA) in Canada
Thomas Engel (IF 1999) – Former Managing Director German Centre of the International Theatre Institute (ITI) in Germany
Pathipon (Miss Oat) (IF 2022) – Director, Performer in Thailand
Nada Sabet (IF 2015) – Director, Presenter in Great Britain
Antje Schupp (IF 2013) – Director, Performer in Switzerland
Zoë Svendsen (IF 2009) – Dramaturg, Translator in England
Nadia Tsulukidze (IF 2011) – Performer in Germany
Edgar Wiersocki– Pianist
Commissioned for “Forum Theatertreffen 1965–2025”.