Daniel Kötter // Roden

In the organizer's words:

Familiar landscapes have turned into question marks. Trees have been felled, entire forests have been cleared. And now? What happens now that nothing grows anymore? A question that arises in many places around the world. The project RODEN by documentary filmmaker and theater director Daniel Kötter undertakes a topography of this loss. Three studies - conducted in the Bergisches Land, in South Kivu in the Democratic Republic of Congo and in Kalimantan in Indonesia - are the starting point for a theatrical and cinematographic journey. For an immersive journey to areas where ecological and social systems have been violently overturned and temporalities overlap. Together with the women's rights activist Olande Byamungu, the instrument maker and musician Ikbal Lubys and the carpenter and performer Wolfram Sander, Daniel Kötter invites us into a world where catastrophe is a lived reality. The question remains: what is possible here?

A production by Kötter/Israel/Limberg GbR in co-production with PACT Zollverein - Choreographisches Zentrum NRW, HELLERAU - Europäisches Zentrum der Künste and Theater im Pumpenhaus Münster Supported by funds from the Capital Cultural Fund and the NRW Cultural Foundation. With the kind support of INVR