Residencies

• 24.02 > 15.03.2025

FI FI FILE is a visu­al per­for­man­ce in which play­ers, music, and a living sce­no­grap­hy meet amid an eter­nal traf­fic jam.

Two per­for­mers are stuck on the high­way, in their car, head and body.
Animistically we pro­ceed. Trees, objects, peo­p­le, fun­gi belong to the same vibra­ti­on, the same troop, the same group.

FI FI FILE is dri­ven by the orga­nis­ms around us.
FI FI FILE is about the drud­gery and poten­cy that bore­dom brings, about repres­sed desi­res, anger, and vio­len­ce. The car is an emp­ty spa­ce that at most allows for a kind of indi­vi­du­al enjoy­ment. In that safe envi­ron­ment, we are allo­wed to shout at the other, and what are we real­ly angry about?

FI FI FILE plays with cari­ca­tu­res, ste­reo­ty­ping, alie­na­ti­on, humor in dis­com­fort. The mun­da­ne, banal, pop cul­tu­re, vehi­cu­lar lan­gu­a­ges, acti­ons are the bree­ding ground for a visu­al uni­ver­se in which dream and rea­li­ty meet in the tran­sit zone of a car, in an asso­ci­a­ti­ve tick-tock world. A high­way, a con­flict on the track. An attempt to embra­ce our­sel­ves and the Other.

Between random­ness and mea­ning, eve­ry­thing vibra­tes, eve­ry­thing is now. We have lost the cir­cles, we are sepa­ra­ted through our skin. We want to go home and tra­vel far­ther away hoping to reach a home.
In traf­fic jams, we accept loss.
Are the­re other, non-human ways to beco­me very close?

Inspired by an under­ground life, FI FI FILE explo­res the poten­ti­al of this togetherness.

FI FI FILE is an ode to the cha­os in which we des­pe­ra­te­ly want to see a line.