FUTUR2

«2042» is a project of the transcultural and multilingual group FUTUR2. Dancer Téné, DJ Melisa and object performer Stephan Q. (all roughly 30 years old) create a «play-laboratory for futures» based on scientific studies and research with 10-year-old children. Together, they questioned the present and the past to imagine what the world might feel like in 20 years’ time, when today’s 10-year-olds will be roughly 30.

The theatre is turned into a laboratory: potatoes are used to generate electricity, colours are transformed into music, the latest trendy sporting activity is danced and robots serve iced tea and champagne. However, it is also where people fight for resources, find themselves pushed into degrading low wage jobs and are enslaved by machines. Nature, toys, everyday objects, artificial intelligence, music gadgets, robots, various languages all serve as the ingredients for experiments to discover what the year 2042 might feel like. In the process, humanity is walking a fine line between absolute freedom and total collapse.

Individual cultural backgrounds, several languages, a wide variety of artistic means of expression and a strong interest in issues of the future: FUTUR2 is at home in various cultures and «trans»acts with and within them – as it also does with the diversity of first and second languages (Swiss German, Mooré, French, German, Turkish, Spanish, English, Polish). United by a common interest in art where the categories of being a child and being an adult dissolve, FUTUR2 takes theatre to the level of «how it will have been».