tanken_1.0

"I’m sick of this backpack. This continual being part of the problem as long as I don’t do anything about it. As long as I don’t burn everything down". 

tanken begins in the year 2050 and is based on the scenario that everything has turned out alright. The glaciers are no longer melting. Nestlé, Amazon and Meta have gone bankrupt and no one buys fuel because there is simply no need for it anymore. For almost everyone, this scenario means an unimaginable utopia. For the mascots of the petrol station companies it means the apocalypse, actually the end. Esso, Shell, Rudi Rüssel, Gasolin and Avia meet at their regular filling station and try to find a way to deal with the situation. With their corporate identity backpack that they just can’t get rid of and last but not least, the frightening realisation that the world will continue to turn without them.
Why do we lack utopia today and how do we get it back? Is there an exit from the cage of capitalist realism?

Partial answers are given by Rutger Breckmann in "Utopias for Realists", Jack Kerouac "On the road", Albert Camus "The Myth of Sisiphos", but also Nietsche, Ernst Bloch and many more. The production is an interplay of dance, material and puppet theatre as well as sound installation.

January 2023 Verein Zitrone, Zurich.

Production projekt.vakuum
Directed by Friederike Karpf
Staging Andy Kirk
Music Silvan Anesini
Choreography Vanessa Morandell Outside Eye David Schwegler Production Management Christian Müller
Acting Louis Vogel/ Christian Müller/Dominik Beck/Stefanie Imhof/ Gianna Schläpfer/ Friederike Karpf