apparatus takes the performative power of matter seriously. Things, including those of the theater, are not just passive matrixes, they are active agents for situations. Everything is a process and all agents in that process determine how it materializes. Space is a container beyond measure, a belief that apparatus employs as a dramaturgical springboard. Their projects evolve from an relational web of space, bodies, textures and shading. Theater itself can manifest and be the host for a better reality. From project to project, apparatus forms temporary collectives from new configurations of human and non-human agents.
apparatus interacts with human and non-human bodies, with space as a body, with texts, machines, stones, philosophies, theater and other institutions, with artists, movements, choreographies and other objects, all together on the search for...
apparatus is forming a temporary collective at Sophiensæle and reclaiming the theater as a place of ’theoria,’ of a contemplative show that doesn’t just affirmatively depict reality...
“Really Useful Theater“ is a series of thematic weekends that critically address the utility and weaknesses of theater for life. In Germany, theater is subsidized; society makes theater possible...
