“Wir wollen verschwinden” aims to make a physical form of communication productive that relies on intense, intimate contact, on touch, connection, breathing and the mass of bodies. The performance experiments with perception and asks, among other things: What is showing, and what do we recognise as being true? Is it possible to see without ascribing meaning to the things we saw? What comes into view when the performers onstage become invisible? The spectators vanish into their own bodies, into the collective body. Vanish in order to reappear anew and differently.
MichaelDouglas Kollektiv has been collaborating with choreographer Özlem Alkis and artist Jared Gradinger for their current production. Together with the collective Özlem Alkis further developed her work on camouflage techniques, while Jared Gradinger, as a pivotal part of the production process, hypnotised the performers.