Residencies

• 01.12 > 06.12.2025

Fālāk is an immersi­ve per­for­man­ce pie­ce on our inter­con­nec­ted­ness with other lives on earth and the lar­ger uni­ver­se. This pie­ce bor­rows from spi­ri­tu­al tra­di­ti­ons from cen­tral asia, north afri­ca and euro­pe, to look at the cos­mo­lo­gies that gui­ded our under­stan­ding of life befo­re capi­ta­lism chan­ged our bearings. 

Edible plants men­ti­o­ned in spi­ri­tu­al texts —the fig, the oli­ve, the ore­ga­no, the pome­gra­na­te and the date palm — are cen­tral charac­ters in this sto­ry. Each tree is con­nec­ted to a pla­net, a geo­grap­hi­cal regi­on, and a dish that is ser­ved to the audien­ce. Jumping through time, across this lar­ge ter­ri­to­ry, the pie­ce focu­ses on the ​‘the sky’ and how the stars gui­ded spi­ri­tu­a­li­ty from ancient times to today. 

From the phi­lo­so­p­hies of the Zoastrians, the Greek, the Egyptian, the Buddhist, the Christian, the Jewish and the Muslim, a sto­ry the hea­vens unfolds. From the four ele­ments, water, air, earth and fire, to the mas­cu­li­ne and the femi­ni­ne prin­ci­ples, and the cir­cle (that tur­ned into a squa­re) and the ether. This work is about Jupiter and the Palm tree, and us and how we embo­dy the pla­nets. It’s about the regi­ons of the world that are cur­sed, and how their spi­ri­tu­al his­to­ries inform who we are today. It’s about the sto­ries that have been swept under the car­pet of enlightenment.