MANUAL OF ADAPTATION TO THE PLANET by LUIT

TIME & PLACE
7 & 8 August 17h00 – Islands Brygge at the train wagon – see location
9 August 15h00 – Refshaleøen at Toll Havs Kiosk, Refshalevej 151 – see location
WHAT Performance
LANGUAGE English
FREE – reservation recommended

A game about life in a near future

Become part of a mission – a mission to draw the future. Step into the simulator that takes you to 2040, where the state no longer exists and where the climate sets new agendas.

A group of climate-adapters has set out to help the people of the future by creating a manual for life on Earth. They travel the world, and in each place they invite new people into the Time Accelerator. With the help of future weather forecasts and climascopes, we experience firsthand what life will feel like in 2040, and we find new strategies for humanity’s adaptation. Where will we live? Who gets which resources? How do we live in balance with flora and fauna?

The work is itself adapted to local characteristics, and in Copenhagen MAP will especially be centered around ‘the floating city’ as a adaptive strategy after massive flooding.

A radio is our only contact with the outside world, while mysterious cave paintings track our experiences. Together we write a new page in the manual with new strategies that build on the previous pages and inspire the next. See the manual here.

The artist collective LUIT is inspired by Buckminster Fuller and his Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth. They have created a living and playful format that lets us live in a possible future and helps us think new thoughts – perhaps in time to help the humanity of the future. It is not about rejecting or submitting to the new, but about creative adaptation.

The performance format was born during the Metropolis Residencies in Copenhagen in 2020 by Zelda Soussan and Ruggero Franceschini and has since been further developed and tested with hundreds of participants and experts around Europe. See interview with Zelda and Ruggero from the residency in 2020.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

LUIT – Laboratoire Urbain d’Interventions Temporaires – brings together artists who work in public space. Based on art and through dialogue with scientists, they seek to create new connections between a place and its inhabitants and passers-by. They observe the place, infiltrate it and create new fictions that build on reality. Read more about LUIT here.

This performance was created in collaboration with Roman Teisserenc, who teaches and researches environmental science in Toulouse.

PRACTICAL INFORMATION

Duration: 2 h 20 min., but you are welcome to join throughout the opening hours. If you are not joining from the start, good times of arrival are +25 min. / + 45 min. / + 65 min. after the start time.
Age: 10+

CREDITS

Concept and direction: Zelda Soussan & Ruggero Franceschini
Scenography: Aurélien Izard
Scientific mentor: Roman Teisserenc (INP Toulouse)
Performers: Thylda Bares, Rémi Boissy, Angelo Callegarin, Sarah Drapeau, Ruggero Franceschini, Claudia Gambino, Aurélien Izard, Samantha Silvestri, Roman Teisserenc, Zelda Soussan, Noa Soussan, Alessandra Vannucci (alternate)
Illustrations: Ehsan Mehrbakhsh, Camille Potte (alternate)
Design: Camille Lamy
Sound design: Farghest
Sound technic: Eric Jeunesse
Administration: Florence Lebreton
Production: Clélia Prot
Distribution: Camille Grant

Thanks to: Amandine Bretonnière – Akompani, Mathilde François, students at Mastère Spécialisé Éco-Ingénierie INP TOULOUSE, Jean-Michel Soubeyroux (Météo France), Anita Ben Sadoun, Francesco Franceschini, Salomé Mooij, Matthieu Duperrex, François Schuiten, Christophe Meierhans, Camille Louis, Gaspard Kiejman, Antonin Blanc, eunemesi, Esben and the floating community in Fredens Havn

Support: DRAC Île-de-France, Ville de Paris, Spedidam, Météo France, European Festival Association, European Festivals Fund for Emerging Artists – EFFEA, an initiative by European Festivals Association (EFA), co-funded by European Union

Co-production: Metropolis, Copenhagen (DK) / Base, Milan (IT) / Arto, Ramonville (FR) / Atelier 210, Bruxelles (BE) / Espace Périphérique, Paris (FR) / L’Avant-Scène Théâtre, Cognac (FR) / MUST, Vimercate (IT) / La Bellone, Bruxelles (BE) / Le Printemps des rues, Paris (FR) / Espace ChapitO – Coopérative De Rue Et De Cirque, Paris (FR) / Animakt, Saulx-Les-Chartreux (FR) / Les Transes Cévenoles, Sumène (FR) / Les Poussières, Aubervilliers (FR)

Sustainable EU tour supported by: Perform Europe, co-funded by Creative Europe, in partnership with SlowMachine APS ETS, Belluno (IT), Passage, Helsingør (DK), Favela, Varazdin (HR), Acquario Libri, Torino (IT)

Photos: Marine Gastineau

Metropolis’ summer programme is supported by the City of Copenhagen and the Danish Arts Foundation

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