Living Conditions

About the performance

Although housing issues are closely linked to the fundamental (in)security of a person’s existence, their everyday life and thus to their belonging and inclusion in the community and society at large, they are often presented to the public simply as statistical-data analysis. The devised project Living Conditions looks at them as a multi-generational problem. It attempts to show the realities of the housing market not only from the statistical or analytical, but also personal angle. It focuses on the stories and experiences of individuals and tries to reveal, through them, the mechanisms of the free market in which a flat is no longer a home, but a means to acquire and accumulate wealth.

The creators undertake the search for suitable flats using different performative procedures, primarily site-specific staging, genre diversity of the scenes and multi-spatial concept (moving from station to station). They seek not just insight into the state of affairs, into the state and municipal public calls and calls for tenders, but also use their research to open up a space for dialogue and reconsidering solutions to the comprehensive housing crisis.

''Due to shifting functions of the same performing space and changing the performing spaces themselves […] the yard, the magazine, the staircase and the building next to The Post Office all transform into a theatre space while everyday objects lose their self-evident traits. […] Documentary, grotesque and partly surrealistic elements in the production are fluidly woven into a whole and its end reminds us that the housing issues are a collective problem against which we, as individuals, will fight without success.'' - Ana Lorger, Sigledal, 29 October 2024

Duration: approximately 140 minutes with one interval

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