PYROFEMS

PYROFEMS
Part 3 of the 4 Life cycle: Earth Water Fire Air

Dates:

13. PR / 14. / 15. / 20. / 21. november 2025, 8 pm
15. / 16. / 17. january 2026, 8 pm
studio trafique

The Anthropocene is the proof that undivided power is doomed to fail.

The world is burning. Whether it's the economic situation, democracy, politics, the Middle East, the Cold War or global warming: problems are spreading like wildfire around the world, and as soon as one fire is extinguished, a new one immediately breaks out, not to mention all the smouldering fires. A maximum of 1.5 degrees of global warming – that is what countries are officially working towards at climate conferences. But the 1.5 degrees have almost been reached. So do we need a new target? And how can we still motivate ourselves to achieve it? The longer the 1.5 degrees are exceeded, the greater will be the impact on the so-called tipping points. If they change, the climate on Earth could change abruptly, there would be much more droughts, much more extreme weather events, and much more floods.
The result: global migration has doubled in the last ten years, and in the coming decades, literally billions of people will be displaced from their homes.

A Google search for the phrase ‘The world is burning’ yields a quarter of a million results in German-language search results from last year alone, all of which are part of a headline/article or newspaper headline. Even if some of these headlines do not actually refer to fires as the above examples show, but rather to political or social events. The most recent example: the US election result, which made one of the world's biggest climate deniers the most powerful man in the world. However, most headlines refer to actual fires, such as the "Mountain Fire" in California, which made it into our news due to the journalistic Western perspective on the world. This is not usually the case: A look at NASA's FIRMS (Fire Information for Resource Management System) website shows that the world is currently really burning, especially in the latitudes at and south of the equator, where the world is already warmest. Even Siberia, which is usually associated with cold weather and winter, is now one of the the areas most affected by climate change, drought and fires, as a study published in October 2024 showed. It also presents the global community with new challenges, be it dealing with fire or flood disasters, poverty, hunger and (climate) migration.
The performance FEUER deals with this very inevitable problem of global conflagration and also calls on the audience to actively participate, because no one can escape the
effects of the climate crisis, as it is no longer just a matter of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius.

Text version: Charlotte Luise Fechner
With: Anna Möbus, Asta Nechajute
Director: Andrea Bleikamp / Dramaturgy: Rosi Ulrich / Media artist: Jens Standke / Set design: Claus Stump / Assistant director: Julia Knorst / Lighting design: Jan Wiesbrock / Technology: Chiara Tess Krogull / Production manager: Anna Möbus /