ANIMATE

Daniel and Laurie are on the run from a near future world of climate transformation. The pair sets out on a journey through the wild landscape of Newfoundland. While news of global climate catastrophes is broadcast on their car radio, they drive towards the Tablelands, an extraordinary, Mars-like landscape in the middle of Gros Morne National Park where one can walk directly on the mantle of the Earth. Gradually, the climate-change transformed landscape exerts a force on them as if it were a conscious, living and breathing entity. It emits strange sounds, affects Daniel and Laurie’s physical bodies and their personal relationship and in the conclusion of »Animate«, manifests the intricate interconnectedness of humans and a natural world under the throes of radical environmental change.

»Animate« sits at the crossroads of performance, installation and radio play utilizing the newest Virtual and Augmented Reality technologies in order to blur the experience between the physical and the digital world. An interdisciplinary international artistic and technological team from Montreal and Berlin thus takes the Weimar audience on an extraordinary participatory journey that uses the creative potential of new technologies to address the urgency of climate catastrophe.

The project talk for »Animate« will take place on Sat, 27 August at 12 noon in the Ket Hall. Chris Salter & guests invite you to join.