Arrival and Departure
Performance Music & Sound Theatre & Performance
Looking for heroes. Are you ready to depart? The Argonause has been on its journey for a year now: A metaphorical ship, sailed by artist group Chez Company of Gesine Danckwart and Fabian Kühlein. On May 30th, the group invites us to a collective happening. At the shores of the Rhine, exactly at Rhine kilometre 764, the audience, a project choir and guests will meet. Together, they will read, sing, and share an artistic logbook of this journey. An evening partly on land and partly on water, between research, ritual, departure and the question: How do we continue this journey?
Die Argonause – Ankunft und Aufbruch (Argonause – Arrival and Departure) bundles the topics of an almost year-long undertaking: Together with guests from science, activism, and art, central questions around ecological transformation were negotiated in twelve research chapters, ranging from living near the Rhine to German car-love to the conditions of art production. Podcasts, workshops, talks, and interventions marked the journey’s stations. The audience will be invited to discuss questions of the performance journey with Greenpeace’s Baro Gabbert, spokesperson for ecological-social justice, and author Bernd Ulrich from DIE ZEIT: What change can one individual bring about? A conversation about the new human, hope, and social responsibility.
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Baro Vicenta Ra Gabbert (Greenpeace), born in 1997, is a lawyer and spokesperson for social-ecological justice at Greenpeace Germany. She studied Law with a focus on International Law at Hamburg’s Bucerius Law School as well as in Rio de Janeiro. She focuses on climate protection and law, sustainable economics, and generational justice.
Bernd Ulrich (DIE ZEIT), born in Essen in 1960, is a journalist and editor for special tasks at DIE ZEIT. He studied Political Sciences and Philosophy in Marburg, working as a journalist for Wochenpost and Tagesspiegel, among others. He has put his stamp on DIE ZEIT’s political journalism since 2003, as head of the Berlin office as well as in his capacity of deputy editor-in-chief and in other functions; he currently works there as author and editor for the opinion department.
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The Argonause receives funding through the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media from the German Federal Cultural Foundation in the “Zero” programme.