with Alizee Lenox, Florence Peake, Eve Stainton.
Outfits by Hugo Canoilas, Elise Lammer, Julie Monot, Mia Sanchez.
Scenography and dramaturgy: Cee Füllemann, Elise Lammer.
Music: Alizee Lenox

On the occasion of the Zurich Art Weekend and complementary to the Zurich film premiere on May 31, Alpina Huus perform at 21:00.

In the midst of generational, climate and economic crises, the film «Theodora or The Progress», by the collective Alpina Huus questions the view of reality and the legitimacy of speech. «Theodora or The Progress», is a collective artistic project that includes an installation, music pieces and performances by a group of international artists* such as Hugo Canoilas, Cee Füllemann, Tarren Johnson, Elise Lammer, Alizee Lennox, Sarah Margnetti, Julie Monot, Lucien Monot, Florence Peake, Jessy Razafimandimby, Mia Sanchez, Eve Stainton and Niels Trannois.

The performance addresses the notion of empowerment and explores the potential of the subconscious. Drawing from the work of Virginia Woolf, Adrian Piper and Lisa Simpson, Deleuze and Guattari, as well as Snoop Dogg and Franz Kafka, the film emphasizes the ability of nonverbal communication as a means of employing strategies against different types of discrimination. Taking its cue from the name of possibly the first feminist figure, the Empress Theodora (500 AD), «Theodora or The Progress», depicts the transformation of the narrator and some of his accomplices into a pack of dogs. «Theodora or The Progress», stages a collective takeover that speaks of love, transformation and transcendence.

** For Cabaret Voltaire members, Zurich Art Weekend VIPs and Alpina Huus friends. Please register here.