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How do you perform when you can’t? How do you work when you shouldn’t? Whom do you ask for help? Your doctor? Your colleagues? Your boss? It begins with a dilemma: how can we speak when we’re out of words? When we want to move forward, but feel not able to do so? They say that sometimes we must just take a leap and then a net will appear. So let’s try! I don’t aim for applause. I just aim for taking that leap. And I trust that you will be my net. May we all learn something new tonight…
You live you learn is about burnout, our relationship to work and the significance it has in society. Despite preventing measures in companies, being burned out is often perceived as the fault of an individual, who overdid it despite knowing better, instead of questioning a system of working conditions. Therefore, many people don't dare to communicate that they are not well. They feel ashamed, fear stigmatization or the loss of their job if their performance at work is no longer satisfactory. And often enough, they don’t see it coming.
So, there is a difficulty, yet a necessity to speak about burnout to overcome it. This dilemma is the core of the artistic approach: It is a performance about non-performing. It moves from darkness to light, from speechlessness to a conversation with the audience. It is an invitation to reflect about our own approach to work and by speaking up despite struggling with finding the words, trying to make it more accepted to not always being able to perform.
Duration: ca. 45 Min. + discussion/open end
Meeting Point: Kasernenhof 8 (Entrance kHaus Courtyard Side)
All By Myself
The program series “All By Myself” brings together artistic positions that position self-empowerment and resistance against a world in crisis - including artists from Geneva, Lausanne, Budapest, Vienna, Warsaw and Basel.
07.02. & 08.02., 20:00 Baptiste Cazaux: GIMME A BREAK!!!
+ Mélissa Guex: Down (full album)
14.02. & 15.02., 19:30 Antje Schupp: You live you learn
14.02. & 15.02., 21:00 Gosia Wdowik: She was a friend of someone else
21.02. & 22.02., 20:00 Viktor Szeri: Fatigue
21.02. & 22.02., 21:30 Krõõt Juurak: Lesson
Dance, theater and performance works that celebrate powerful personal expression, but at the same time shed light on its darker side: individual struggles, inner abysses and struggles. A multi-layered dialog between strength and vulnerability, exhaustion and activism, individual and community!
Livin`Alone?
Nobodies Home?
Don't want to be all by yourselves anymore?
Come together at Kaserne Basel!!! We look forward to seeing you<3
Biography
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. In 2025 she was nominated for the Nachtkritik Theatertreffen with Recycling of Life.
Credits
Concept / Text / Performance: Antje Schupp
Musical Support / Musikalischer Support: Martin Gantenbein
Outside Eye: Lola Giouse
Interview: Nadine Jent
Production: born2perform with the support of Kaserne Basel, LAB residency
With generous support of: Fachausschuss Darstellende Künste BS/BL der Kantone Basel-Stadt und Basel-Landschaft
