Kainkollektiv – Rückkehr der Königstöchter

In the organizer's words:

As part of the 30-hour performance THESMOPHORIA, kainkollektiv presents RÜCKKEHR DER KÖNIGSTÖCHTER. Together with the cosmic sisters, kainkollektiv &sie open up a sound space in the form of a walk-in radio play that aims to bring to life the stories and songs of those forgotten "daughters of kings" that our white, male-dominated history of civilization has caused to disappear since ancient times.

In an acoustic-musical soundscape, the voices, narratives, personal accounts and soundscapes of cultures that were wiped out by Western colonial history appear in an (afro)futuristic and& docu-fictional counter-journey through time and space.

The cosmic "sisters of Medea" are artists from South Africa (ANNALYZER), Cameroon (ALIMA), Iran (9T ANTIOPE alias Sara Bigdeli Shamloo & Nima Aghiani), Canada/Germany (Vanessa Chartrand Rodrigue) and Greece (Lydia Polyzoi). Between pop and opera, indigenous chants and electro, they develop "Songs of Future Care" together. In a 3D soundspace, they invite the listening audience to liquefy their own echo chambers and, in an acoustic evocation of ghosts and the dead, to get to the bottom of the question that always looms on the horizon, both at the beginning and in the continuation of the colonial legacy: WHO OWNS HISTORY? Who owns history? - And whose memory counts?