Porno mit Adorno
News about the damaged life. A hyper pop opera.
Based on Adorno's "Minima Moralia. Reflections from Damaged Life", "Porno mit Adorno" is an attempt to look at our present - filled with passions and affects.
"Porno mit Adorno" is a news studio, zooms in on economic and technological overformations, and reports on the culture industry, on the delusion, on increasing populism, and on reified nature. The news themselves become products of the commodity world, which like undead threshold creatures have detached themselves from all purposefulness and want only one thing: to resonate.
The news about damaged life affirms hyper-pop as the revolt of space and time, wrapping Adorno and Critical Theory, the actual sad science, in the technological veil: the news texts are further developments of Adorno's aphorisms and essays, created in collaboration with GPT-3 based artificial intelligences.
"Porno mit Adorno" surrenders to the excess of affirmation and moves to the sound of No. Where there was a fantasy of redemption, let it become a zombie that sings: let me die.
→ Letter to the theater from Faber (german)
photo: Philip Frowein
With
Yan Balistoy, Faber, Sophie Krauss
Production Team
Direction: Felix Rothenhäusler
Dramaturgy: Hayat Erdoğan
Konzept, Spiel, Musik: Faber
Music/Composition: Jo Flüeler, Goran Koč, Janos Mijnssen, Moritz Widrig
Stage: Sina Knecht
Costume: Elke von Sivers
Regieassistenz: Sophia Senn
Regiehospitanz: Valentin Müri
Dramaturgiehospitanz: Lucia Salomé Gränicher
Ausstattungsassistenz: Lea Niedermann
Ausstattungshospitanz: Dorothea Blank
Video: Juan Ferrari
3D-Animation: Sara Bissen