Henrike Iglesias & Miss Theatre - AFTERLIVES
Where are we when we are not there? AFTERLIVES is a collaboration of the collective Henrike Iglesias with the Thai collective Miss Theatre that includes artist Miss Oat and many other collaborators. This interactive, multi-media performance will take place in Vienna and Bangkok at the same time: Together with the two audience groups, connected via smartphones, the performers will set out to find queer afterlives.
In AFTERLIVES, the theory of the multiverse, based on principles of quantum theory, serves as a metaphor, a narrative device and a source for inspiration to speculate about one’s own life after death, queer politics of dying and alternative forms of living together. Audiences will gather in theatre spaces in Bangkok and Vienna and interact with the performance using their own smartphones. The phone will thus become a portal connecting spaces and spectators. What parallel realities are imaginable? Where are we when we are not there? How do we need to face one another to feel connected? And where can we get together to care and mourn for one another?
Henrike Iglesias is a theatre collective based in Berlin and Basel and existing since 2012. The crew includes Leo G. Alonso, Malu Peeters, Marielle Schavan and Sophia Schroth. Together and in smaller constellations as well as with various collaborators, they devise performances, installations, parties and much more. For Henrike Iglesias, phenomena of popular culture and the mass media mirror social situations and grievances, so they set out to shed a light on them from feminist perspectives. In their work, they like to use technical means and devices in narrative, interactive and poetic ways, trying to find out how they affect how we all live together on a daily basis. Henrike Iglesias and brut Wien enjoy a continuous collaboration. After OH MY (2019), FRESSEN (2020), UNDER PRESSURE (2021) and most recently FLAMES TO DUST (2023), AFTERLIVES marks Henrike Igleasias’s fifth appearance at brut.
Miss Theatre from Bangkok is a collective of performing artists who tackle queer themes, marginalised communities and gender policy. Based on personal experiences, they experiment with narrative devices to challenge convictions and fend off patriarchal ideologies.