The Anthropic Landscape – Life Beyond the Surface
The Anthropic Principle suggests that the universe is shaped by the presence of those who observe it. In this laboratory performance, grief itself becomes a landscape—one that exists only because we move through it.
Exploring the corporeal, earthbound aspects of human existence, this work asks how we are shaped by the world and the traces we leave behind. Rooted in a personal journey of death, breathing, and becoming, The Anthropic Landscape navigates the threshold between life and what comes after, absence and presence, and how memory reshapes what we call home.
Performances: 3 & 4 April 2025 20h
Venue: ZHDK Toni Areal 3.C06 InszenatorikRaum
CREDITS
Project conceived by
Diane Gemsch
Co-directed by
Tomer Zirkilevich
Assisted by
Victor Mendes
Performed by
Neil Höhener, Mara Natterer, Diane Gemsch
Music by
Emmanuel Michaud & Linda Vogel
Live-light creation
Simon Schwarz
Light concept
Ivalina Yapova
Supported by the artistry of
Hans-Jakob Mühletahler, Haim Abergel, Lea Bühler, Leonora Christina Gaitanou
Photos by
Jürg Lauber
dedicated to
Reto Gemsch