ATTEINTES A LA PUDEUR (Breaches of modesty)
2008 A series of weekly performances in public places (Biel/Bienne) The Collectif barbare offers their public of passers-by a repertoire of unusual images and moments that open up an unexpected and refreshing margin of reflection. These actions inhabit the borderline between performance and reality, so that the pedestrians and audience don’t know whether they are […]
HAPPY FOREVER
2012 an art installation made with abandoned objects from the cellars of Palazzo Wyler. The Palazzo Wyler was a housing block riddled with asbestos and therefore condemned to be demolished.In 2012, for an interstice before its demolition, the owner of the building (the Wyler-Baugesellschaft Bern AG) gave a group of Bernese artists free reign over the […]
ICH MOECHTE NUR NOCH SPIELEN
2015 CO-PRODUCERS & SHOWS THEATER WINKELWIESE ZÜRICHBÜHNE AARAUTOJO THEATER BERNFORUM NEUE MUSIK LUZERN A musical theater inspired by Max Frisch’s “Drafts for a Third diary” and interpreted by the six men of the “ensemble für neue musik zürich” on the occasion of their 30th anniversary. The small village of Berzona in Ticino was Max Frisch’s […]
LES ENFANTS DE BARBARIE
2008 CO-PRODUCERS & SHOWS BÜHNE AARAUTOJO THEATER BERN From 1926 to the 1970s, the aid organisation “Kinder der Landstrasse” (Pro Juventute) separated at least 2000 Jenisch, Sinti and Roma children from their families and placed them in orphanages and psychiatric clinics. The Travellers’ concept of home and life was perceived as a threat, they were […]
LES PARADIS BARBARES
2009 CO-PRODUCERS & SHOWS SCHLACHTHAUS THEATER BERN BÜHNE AARAUFORUM NEUE MUSIK LUZERN 5 performers and 3 asylum seekers. A play in the form of an opera with multiple narrative layers full of suspense, led by characters lost between fiction and reality, between music, dance, theatre and performance. Omnipresent, the soundtrack is elaborated like that of […]
LES RITUELS BARBARES
Les rituels barbares 2007 CO-PRODUCERS & SHOWS ROTE FABRIK ZÜRICHBÜHNE AARAUSCHLACHTHAUS THEATER BERN A musical theater based on the crime of the Papin sisters (1933). The crime on which this play is based is typical of a time when servants were considered only in terms of the use they could be put to. Young girls […]
A SOLDIER’S TALE
2016 CO-PRODUCERS & SHOWS BÜHNE AARAUARGOVIA PHILHARMONIC A youth militia takes ownership of the Faustian story and explores how the fairy tale can be told today. They know where the plug is in the old army riding arena. How a mixing desk works, and how to erect scaffolding. Producing sound recordings, eliciting sound from a […]
MONTE VERITA
MONTE VERITA 2004 CO-PRODUCERS & SHOWS SCHLACHTHAUS THEATER BERN A general assembly of the members of Monte Verità. Including the welcome address by the president, the reading of the statutes, the cashier’s report… And an ambiguous relationship with the spectators: they are treated as fellow members by the actors. The commemoration of those missing is punctuated […]
NIGHT VOYAGE
2016 CO-PRODUCERS & SHOWS BLICKFELDER FESTIVALTHEATER WINKELWIESE ZÜRICH A quiet clinic amidst the greenery, an oasis of peace. No doctors or nursing staff. The young patients have long since been left to their own devices. They have created their own world, complete with rules and formulas. They no longer speak, the essential has been said […]
SITCOM
2012 3rd part of the trilogy of Collectif barbare’s projects in Biel’s public spaces : “ATTEINTES A LA PUDEUR ”(2008) / “IN FLAGRANTE” (2010) / “SITCOM” (2012) SITCOM focuses on the dreams, expectations and excesses of reality TV; illusion, ambition, voyeurism, abuse of power and imposture. SITCOM uses social networks to bring people and audiences who […]