ID - Projekt 13
PLASMA
Theatre
A biometrical Theatre-Installation
PLASMA leads the audience through an identity assessment process: data is collected, forms are stamped and passes are issued. Friendly hostesses accompany us into the automated theatre machine "ID" which is set between the poles of politically claimed data transparency and system inherent concealement for the sake of inner security. As if we had escaped from the world to be lead through the registring system of the gates of heaven we ask ourselves: Why do I think that I am another person than the others? And: Am I - in the case of complete amnesia and loss of all identification documents - still I or am I then already or yet or again another person?
Concept, Direction, Text and Set Design Lukas Bangerter With Helene Høm, Lilian Fritz, Wowo Habdank, Jorgos Margaritis, Jesko Stubbe Music Jan Ratschko, Martin Wigger Dramaturgy Sarah Ross, Peter v. Salis Set Design and Costumes Petra Kenneth Set Construction WALTERSTAHL Production Walter Delazer Coproduction Theaterhaus Gessnerallee Supported by Stadt Zürich Kultur, Fachstelle Kultur Kanton Zürich, Pro Helvetia Schweizer Kulturstiftung, Dr. Adolf Streuli Stiftung, Ernst Göhner Stiftung In Collaboration with ipf – institute for the performing arts and film/ZHdK Thanks to Institut für Bildverarbeitung (BIWI), Dept. Informationstechnologie und Elektrotechnik ETH Zuerich und TBS – touchless – biometric - systems Holding AG.