The music-theatrical concert installation Spell (WP) transforms the venue into a multidimensional and synesthetic space where incantations, rituals, and magic vividly confront, merge, and collide with one another. The range of this bizarre space spans from playful illusion to manipulative narration. Spell opens up an equally immersive and a critical journey through the nature of magic.

The members of the young Kollektiv UNRUHE compose, stage, and perform collectively. Their motto: “Collaboration is the future, and it is here to stay.” At the center of their work is a non-hierarchical, democratic form of artistic collaboration and collective creation. Their latest work, Spell, is already their second commission from Klangwerkstatt Berlin.

SPELL. Collective composition by Kollektiv UNRUHE

To be honest, what we see is not to be believed, is it? What we see, feel, taste, smell—the version of the world that our senses convey to us, that our brain interprets—may in fact be an illusion. An illusion that our brain perhaps shapes as a means of comforting itself about its limited sensory system—to say: “Hey, human! This is it. That’s all, folks. Nothing more to see here.” To console us with the fact that there is so, so much about the world—the universe—that we still do not know.

For … quite some time (perhaps longer), humankind has been grappling with the unknown, desperately trying to define it, understand it, control it. Out of this search came strange forces, forces that we now interpret as sounds, symbols, images, language—the list goes on.

We have not managed to control these forces.

On the contrary: they control us, forces of the past, present, and future, manifesting—well, however they want, ultimately.

But for the first time, we, Kollektiv UNRUHE—under the right conditions—will bring these forces into harmony.

Hopefully, you, the audience, can also help us—with lots of applause—to bring these forces into even greater harmony; some of them will surely be lost along the way … but that is part of the magic, isn't it?

So get ready to embrace the unknown, which is …

… drumroll, please …

SPELL

… the latest collective composition by Kollektiv UNRUHE.

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Performed and composed by Kollektiv UNRUHE in collaboration with Ludmilla Mercier, Ayfer Ezgi Karataş, Ayla Sofia Klink, Mariona Urgell Baiori, and guests.
Kollektiv UNRUHE