Family Feeling Factory
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| free admission |
| Duration: 90 min |
| 14 years and older |
| German |
| Mechanical Arena in the Foyer |
| Belongs to: Hide or Tell? |
In the performance Family Feeling Factory, 36 young people work with artist Juliane Meckert to create images of the family of the future, asking moving questions about our present
This is the year of 3020. Families no longer live on a single planet, but in two worlds: one being a warm, golden world of women full of cats and one being a landscape of singing forests and orchards. Memories appear as light, communication takes place via gestures, vibrations, and thoughts. And yet some phrases remain: “Don’t stay out too long,” “Never give up.”
In the participatory setting, the audience is invited to contribute their own memories, perspectives, and experiences. What is family? Who belongs to it? What stories do we tell—and which ones remain untold?
Through movement, music, text, and performative sequences, a space of experience is created in which the future and everyday life flow into one another. The young people weave personal perspectives with collective utopias and open doors to spaces that are otherwise rarely entered. They show family as a system in motion: a place of closeness and confinement, of rules and secrets, of care and chaos. A structure that produces feelings like a factory – tender, rebellious, overwhelming.
The Family Feeling Factory shows family as a feeling, as a construction, as a space of possibilities – and as a network of many voices, times, and worlds. The performance becomes a mirror and a laboratory for the future. It reveals what connects us, what challenges us, what we pass on. All those present are invited to rethink family—as an open, flexible form of coexistence.
Family Feeling Factory is part of Humboldting! A School Research Project, a long-term project of the Stiftung Humboldt Forum im Berliner Schloss at the intersection of education and art. Artistic direction: Alice Fleming and Darren O’Donnell.
Participating students:
Solaf, Ceylin, Kaan, Elli, Hamid, Duru, Julina, Ecem, Bao Chau, Zara, Sabrija, Nahla, Evelina, Ceylin, Havin, Buse, Eylül, Sarina, Selina, Enzo, Solange, Mehmet, Hanna, Ariya, Varvara, Aylin, Kira, Soraya, Iman, Dayaa, Laia, Cinzia, Lamija, Pia, Asya, Princess
Participants
Juliane Meckert (*1982, Leipzig) is a freelance actress, director, theater pedagogue and author in Berlin. She studied acting at the Mozarteum Salzburg and works both on and off stage. Stages have included Festspielhaus Hellerau, Steirischer Herbst, Mica Moca, Sophiensäle, Lofft, das Theater and Staatsschauspiel Dresden. She is part of the collectives Fritzpunkt, internil, wilde pferde, collective bleeding and WESSER | MECKERT. Her plays deal with socio-political issues, including Næste Station Stengårdsvej(2021) about Danish ghetto laws, Gefährten (2021) about human-animal relationships, Wir kriegen Euch Alle! (2022) on the baseball bat years and Unser Land (2023) on Sorbian-German relations. Her work is characterized by site-specific, performative and participatory formats in collaboration with so-called “experts of everyday life” and with a focus on space, ritual, memory and transformation.
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