In a globalised world in which everything is connected to eachother... small, everyday actions and objects can have a major impact. The piece tells a story of our unconscious daily use of resources, our behavior towards the environment and in particular (the creatures) the animals and the effects or consequences of such actions.
Using everyday objects such as a plastic bag, the unconscious use of goods as an example shows some possible consequences. So not only the sound but the objects too, play a central rolle in the piece.
A dance theater that kidnapps the audience in an entertaining way to a imaginative reality and asks to reflect about ones own actions and behavior. Or we will all soon Rest In Plastic!
A European citizen uses about 500 plastic bags per year.
About 3 million tons of plastic is estimated to swim in the two parts of the "Great Pacific Garbage Patch", from which the one east, the other is west of Hawaii.
To a depth of 10 meters, small plastic parts float around in the ocean like fish food.
The sea is only the first stop where all this colorful, shiny and so practical plastic ends; in the stomachs of birds and fish and possibly soon in ourselves in the form of nanoparticles from the fish and seafood we eat.
The name Homo sapiens (Latin meaning: wise man), is today the mammal with the largest population of seven billion.
Know yourself
When Carl Linnaeus in 1735 assigned the human in his book Systema Naturæ the animal kingdom and there to the genus Homo, Linnaeus abandoned - in contrast to his usual approach - a focused description of physical characteristics of the genus. Instead, he noted, "nosce te ipsum" ("Know thyself") and was therefore assumed that everyone knows exactly what a man is.
The characteristic features of the human species are (to put it short):
Consciousness. This allows humans to have a temporal and historical dimension as well as a reflective relationship to themselves, to their own drives, actions and their possible consequences. So humans can ask questions relating to their own existence and future in a fundamental way, [...] as to their position in nature and their dealings with it, according to ethical principles of human coexistence and for meaning of life in general.
