Public in Private / Clémentine M. Songe „living room“

LIVING ROOM

25-28 nov. 2021 - Sophiensæle Berlin
A room with a life of its own. What if the furniture that inhabits our living room was tired of its fixed roles and tasks and decides to break free, move around, jump, transform, disassemble itself or join forces with other appliances? What if your bed, chair and bookshelf decided that they want to exist independent from their habitual context, on their own terms, free to become what they want, free to leave their fixed position and venture into the world. In Living Room Clémentine M. Songe (aka Clément Layes) explores the dynamics of the living room, that place where we surround ourself with things that feel familiar, intimate, recognizable, safe. Transforming this room into a ‘living room’, a room that makes its own choices. In collaboration with the architect Morana Mažuran from the architectural office Ortner & Ortner Baukunst, the light designer Ruth Waldeyer and visual artist Jonas Maria Droste, Clémentine M. Songe bare the many interrelations that appear between our lives and this place, showing how much we take our habitual environment for granted, relying on it in order to feel ‘at home’ in the world. Different abstract objects, reminiscent of a living arrangement, move according to their own operative logic, while the performer has to adapt to the rhythm and to the space again and again: The floor is sliding, turning, lifting. The room comes to life. It is, after all, a living room.
Artistic direction, performance: Clémentine M. Songe (aka Clément Layes)
Artistic collaboration: Jasna L. Vinovrški
Stage design, architecture: Morana Mažuran
Stage design, construction, concept: Jonas Maria Droste, Ruth Waldeyer, Clément Layes
Dramaturgy: Jonas Rutgeerts
Light: Ruth Waldeyer
Music: Steve Heather
Costume: Malena Modeer
Press: Aïsha Mia Lethen
International communication: Inge Koks
Production: Public in Private

A production by Public in Private in coproduction with SOPHIENSÆLE and 0090. Funded by the Senate Department for Culture and Europe. Supported by Ortner & Ortner Baukunst and Flutgraben e.V.
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