Antje Schupp is a director, performer, lecturer and author in (music)theatre and performance. Her interest of work is on transforming complex sociopolitical or ecological topics into performances, which offer the audience a direct involvement into the process or the performance itself. She has been collaborating with Kaserne Basel for many years and worked e.g. with Theater Basel, Schauspielhaus Zurich, Theater Neumarkt or Schauspielhaus Wien. Her productions got invited to festivals such as Antigel Geneva, Politik im Freien Theater or Impulse Theatre Festival. Antje regularly works in international collaborations, most recently in Brazil, prior in Lebanon, South Africa and Kosovo. She holds the Prize of Festspiele Zurich 2020 and the BAK Swiss Performing Arts Award 2021.

Ayman Nahle is a visual artist, filmmaker, cinematographer, film editor and film archivist. By synergizing his filmmaking  with a passion for archiving, he delves into the realm of liminal space, bridging the gap between past memories and cultural and political interventions. Since 2020, he has been actively involved in archival practices, contributing to various workshops and research projects as an audio-visual archivist for Umam Documentation & Research (UMAM D&R) collections. His dedication to preserving and documenting audio-visual materials has been instrumental in enriching the historical and cultural heritage of these collections.

Yanik lives and works as a musician and artist in Basel. He studied Fine Arts at the Institute of Art at the HGK FHNW Basel (Bachelor) and at the Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam (Master) and started a second Master in Composition and Improvisation at the Musik-Akademie Basel, Department of Classical Music in 2022. His work moves between visual arts, composition, improvisation and performance. As a composer, he has written music for theater (Schauspielhaus Zürich, Junges Theater Basel) as well as for his own ensemble, band and solo projects (SOLAND ANGEL, MIR) and developed video soundtracks, performance soundtracks (Kunstmuseum Basel) and audio pieces. His first solo album YUKI was released in 2021 on the Futura Resistenza label (NL/BXL).

Christoph Rufer was born in Bern and lives in Zurich and Berlin. After training as a bookseller, he studied scenographic design at the Zurich University of the Arts. Since 2011, he has worked as a freelance stage and costume designer in the fields of drama, musical theater, performance and dance. Other activities include teaching assignments with students. Works in an independent context, e.g. Kaserne Basel, Sophiensæle Berlin, Schlachthaus Theater Bern, Theater Basel, Konzert Theater Bern, Luzerner Theater, Burgtheater Wien, Schauspielhaus Wien, Münchner Kammerspiele, Staatstheater Augsburg, as well as Beogradsko Dramsko Pozorište/Belgrade Schauspielhaus.

Concept, text, direction

Antje Schupp

Performance and Creation

Antje Schupp, Ayman Nahle, Yanik Soland, Christoph Rufer (Creation)

Set design

Christoph Rufer

Video

Ayman Nahle

Music by

Yanik Soland

Technical direction & lighting

Thomas Kohler

Production Management

Annina Birrer, produktionsDOCK

A production by

born2perform in co-production with Kaserne Basel

Partner

Ballhaus Ost Berlin, UMAM Documentation & Research Beirut (UMAM D&R)

With the generous support of

the Dance&Theatre Committee BS/BL, Ernst Göhner Stiftung and Pro Helvetia

Special thanks to

Lottner AG Basel, Bäckerei Kult, Theo Rietschi AG, Oh Blumen, Getränkekollektiv, Squadra Violi