R.I.P. – Resurrect in Peace

2023–24 Performance Coproduction with HAU Hebbel am Ufer and Kaserne Basel, 2023/24
Three performers in layered grey rags move between mounds of pale earth in front of projected cloudy skies, audience in the foreground

Photo: Lemohang Mosese

R.I.P. – Resurrect in Peace invites the audience to witness a ritual performed by a speculative, post-anthropocentric cult.

Three performers become the masters of ceremony for this tech-intensive burial for an extinct bird. Vive trackers register their movements and serve as ceremonial objects which communicate with a digital ecosystem that runs in Unreal Engine. The bodies of the performers connect the physical and the virtual, the absent and the present.

R.I.P. is a space for interspecies grief, a ceremonial admission of guilt, a choreographed lament in the phygital realm.

A huge projected bird spreads its wings above a mound of soil while one performer crouches and another stands in the dark
Photo: Lemohang Mosese
Three hooded performers raise their arms between candle-lit soil mounds in front of projected willow trees, musicians at a table on the right
Photo: Lemohang Mosese
A hooded performer in silhouette gestures toward projected billowing smoke, soil mounds and candles on the stage floor
Photo: Lemohang Mosese
Two performers recline on the floor beside a soil mound topped with a nest while a projection shows a man holding a long rifle
Photo: Lemohang Mosese

Trailer

Companion works

A glossy, dripping white arch rises above mossy rocks in a dark virtual pine forest under a stormy sky
R.I.P. – Redemption 2024
A performer in black with a cap stretches one arm out in front of a projected dark, glistening arch, a second performer seated in the background
R.I.P. – Ceremony 2025

Credits

  • Concept, artistic direction, 3D print: Anan Fries
  • Performance: Kieron Jina, Harumi Mumenthaler, Karol Tyminski
  • Technical artists: Irina Shutova, Ambrus Ivanyos
  • Composition, sound design: Malu Peeters
  • Costume design, scent design: Mean Goddess
  • Choreography: Anan Fries, Brigitte Huezo, Kieron Jina, Karol Tyminski
  • Sound technician: Johanna Schütt
  • Video technician: Anton Filatov
  • Pigeon animation: Mohsen Hazrati
  • Production management: Sina Kießling
  • Photos: Lemohang Mosese

Shown at

  • REFRESH, ZHdK Zürich, 2025 (as R.I.P. – Ceremony)
  • NEXT LEVEL Festival, Dortmunder U, 2024
  • HAU Hebbel am Ufer / Berlin Art Week, 2024
  • Kaserne Basel, 2023