OPEN STUDIO – Ein kollaboratives Theaterlabor für Inszenierung mit Klang

«Wen Keng We Meet? – On Connection»
RRRRRR Collective

An invitation to listen – four groups of artists explore how sound can be staged in Dimitri de Perrot's OPEN STUDIO and share their search for new forms of theatre in public performances.

  • Thu 29/01 20:00

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  • Fri 30/01 18:00

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  • Fri 30/01 20:00

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  • Sat 31/01 18:00

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  • Sat 31/01 20:00

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In their new project, the RRRRRR Collective asks how we can stay connected despite the return of borders, divisions and geopolitical tensions. Copyright: RRRRRR Collectiv

In OPEN STUDIO, artists from various disciplines are collaborating with the sound artist, director and stage designer Dimitri de Perrot to explore productions that use sound as a central creative medium. They are developing ideas, perspectives, and artistic approaches: How can sound be used to think, design, narrate?

In ‘Wen Keng We Meet? – On Connection’, the Euro-Asian RRRRRR Collective—comprising Keng Chen, Wen-Chi Liu, Dino Radoncic, Eneas Prawdzic, Nathalie Stirnimann, and Stefan Stojanovic—asks how we can remain connected despite the resurgence of borders, divisions, and geopolitical tensions. Following a desire to meet, the Taiwan-based artist Wen-Chi and the mainland Chinese artist Keng, together with their European collaborators, travel to the border that separates them. At the narrowest point between Xiamen and the island of Kinmen, the distance is merely six kilometers. They have three days. Then they must leave. Will they succeed in meeting one another?

The result is an audio-visual performance, situated between documentary theater and a fictional exploration of the human need for encounter: a poetic snapshot of a fragmented yet inescapably connected world.

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For over ten years, sound artist Dimitri de Perrot has been exploring the intersection of sound, space and staging with his creations. OPEN STUDIO is a project that represents the logical progression of this practice – and an artistic act of sharing. Here, de Perrot invites other artists to explore the possibilities of sound-based narrative forms in their own language and aesthetic.

The topics range from transnational distance (RRRRRR Collective) to patriarchal attributions (Papst/Glanzmann) to the experiences of Black people in Europe (Fazil On Yu) and the invisibility of marginalised identities (Zainab J Lascandri). All projects are based on biographical fragments, interviews or personal archives and transform them into poetically condensed sound spaces.

It's worth coming back several times:

‘OPEN STUDIO: unerhört ungestört’ by Vincent Glanzmann & Anna Papst
26, 27, 28 February 2026

‘OPEN STUDIO: Until They Hear Black Voices’ by Fazil On Yu
26, 27, 28 March 2026

In their new project, the RRRRRR Collective asks how we can stay connected despite the return of borders, divisions and geopolitical tensions.

Copyright: RRRRRR Collective

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