Idiolab

IDIOLAB is setting out to reclaim the artistic direction from the clutches of Trump & Co. The kick-off event will take place on 3 October at Volksbühne’s Roter Salon, with a play-off between immodesty and despondency. Amid an inflation of hopeless situations, we are banking on an orgy of solutions – a solutions Internationale! Expect a feel-good event! Actors, artist and other solution-makers are involved in this presentation of all solutions, even solutions that do not (yet) exist. Solving is key, no matter what. We’re sick and tired of hearing problems!

Programme:

1. Calling out the objectives of IDIOLAB
2. Solving the World‘s Problems #1 (solution-makers read out their solutions)
3. Re-Enactment of Life Hacks
4. Tristan Tzara Lecture
5. Idio-Log#1
6. Solving the World’s Problems #2 (experts)
7. Solving the World’s Problems #3 (open mic)
8. „Fart the Truth“ – inauguration ceremony of Idiolab‘s mascot Sako, our cherished ‚sacophagus‘ from OcidOrient, who keeps excreting millennia of theatre and drama wisdoms from his rear end.

The audience is invited to submit original and/or absurd solutions (max. 100 words), the most idiotic will be selected and presented – this includes dissolution, resolution and redemption issues. (send to: dramaturgie@volksbuehne-berlin.de)

„No matter where we look, be it out of the window, at the screen, through the AI porthole of a spaceship, into the war zone, at the inexplicable fluff originating from our bellybuttons, we are faced with situations that overwhelm us, trample on us. This is not to say that there are no solutions, but most of them are mundane, narrow-minded, or unimaginative and as such the starting point of new problems. And we don’t want those. We would like to meet someone else.“ (IDIOLAB)