We are fucked. The climate catastrophe is already happening, and the birds warned us during the lockdown. We must form a pact with nature, say the romantics. We must sing with a wagtail, a robin, or a swallow! Or we must gargle like decapitated, headless battery hens and roll ourselves in tar and feathers. BECOMING BIRD is a performative sound work that drags us through the mire. Chirp chirp, Gaia-fuckers.
How can we establish a new pact with nature in the light of the pandemic, climate change and the demand for growth and production? The answer seems to be through sacrifice. However, sacrifice need not be ascetic. It can be an act of overflowing generosity, transgression and excess.
It is probably doomed to failure. So, yet again, we fail to reach nature! Let’s fail better.
Medvirkende PATRICK BAURICHTER, CRISTIAN VOGEL (musiker) og kunstnerkollektivet MYCELIUM Iscenesættelse og scenografi NATHALIE MELLBYE Tekst og koncept MYCELIUM Komposition og lyddesign CRISTIAN VOGEL Filmværk MELLBYE/BEHRENS
