Susanne Kennedy, Markus Selg

The Work

Theatre
Odéon-Théâtre de l’Europe – Berthier Paris 17
decemberdec 16 – 21
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1h30

In English, surtitled in French.

Walking show with a limited number of seats.

Prices €19 to €38 
Subscribers €16 to €34

 

 

Odéon-Théâtre de l’Europe – Berthier Paris 17

Tuesday december 16

20h

Wednesday december 17

18h

Wednesday december 17

21h

Thursday december 18

20h

Friday december 19

18h

Friday december 19

21h

Saturday december 20

16h

Saturday december 20

20h

Sunday december 21

16h

Sunday december 21

20h

Concept Susanne Kennedy, Markus Selg. Direction, text Susanne Kennedy. Scenography Markus Selg. Sound creation, editing, artistic contribution Richard Alexander. Video creation Rodrik Biersteker, Markus Selg. Costume design Andra Dumitrascu. Lighting design Kevin Sock. Dramaturgy Johanna Höhmann. With Suzan Boogaerdt, Adriano Henseler, Toni Maercklin, Montse Majench, Jasper Middendorf, Ibadet Ramadani, Damian Rebgetz, Marie Rosa Tietjen, Bianca van der Schoot, Antonia Wiedemann, Laurie Young. Voice-over by Laurie Young, Damian Rebgetz, Kate Strong, Brigitte Cuvelier, Ibadet Ramadani, Marie Rosa Tietjen, Ann Göbel, Christian Persico, Neela Hetzel de Fonseka. 

Production Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz (Berlin)

The Odéon Théâtre de l'Europe and the Festival d'Automne à Paris present this show in co-realisation. 

With the support of

Two years after the Focus devoted to them at the Festival d'Automne, Susanne Kennedy and Markus Selg conjure up an open-ended world populated by avatars. By means of identical faces and pre-recorded voices, the same traumatic memories are played out over and over again.

 

In line with her previous production Einstein on the Beach, the German director leads us headlong into the confines of an imaginary world-work. Resembling a virtual simulation of some kind, this is a space in which all linear paths have been abolished and which does away with the frontal nature of theatre. Stuck in this infernal loop, the audience navigates a path between the dislocated fragments of Xenia's memory and, in doing so, examines the existential anxieties that have led to her death. Tinged with irony of a macabre kind, Susanne Kennedy turns this antechamber of death into a place where conventional discourses about our finitude resonate. She distances herself from the anxieties of the world of contemporary art and its different mechanisms, but also from her own work. Behind the fake retrospective of this character lies a journey deep into the collaborative work of Susanne Kennedy and Markus Selg. The Work takes on the form of a living archive, a self-portrait for two voices in which each scenographic element reactivates the various obsessions and aesthetics that punctuate their work as a duo.

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Odéon-Théâtre de l’Europe – Berthier Paris 17
octoberoct 2 – 26

Bouchra Khalili
Astérismes (Fig. 2) : The Circle and The Public Storyteller Astérismes (Fig. 1 à 3)

Visual arts
Free

Bouchra Khalili is the visual arts guest at the 2025 edition of the Festival d'Automne. Born in 1975 in Casablanca, she lives in Vienna, Austria and works in an itinerant manner. For more than twenty years, she has been producing rigorously conceived works that function as visual and discursive hypotheses, and which take into account the contemporary issues of art and the world. Her work seeks to overturn geographies, narratives and official histories in order to restore depth and precision to reality and its protagonists. Bringing together recent works and new productions, her project entitled Astérismes (Fig. 1 à 3) takes to three theatre stages its exploration of the links between the representation of long-lost stories, performance art and moving images.