Le jeux est fait – l’éspace perdu

In this performance, I focus on the effects of human assertions and the transgression of boundaries versus nature. Using extreme mountaineers whom I knew personally and who went missing or died in spring 2012 during a winter first ascent in the Himalayas, I show this close interplay between spaces, shelters, their fragility and ephemeral transience.

The audience is guided through the performance in the narrative form of a radio play: diary entries of the missing mountaineers, interviews with other extreme mountaineers and their approach to boundaries, philosophical texts (Freud), interviews with alpine researchers have been dramaturgically processed into a 45-minute radio play and accompanied by a mobile sound system on the performative walk through the Sellamatt Alps. There are five stations in total that you visit together. At each location, there is an expedition tent, bright yellow, which I engage with haptically: sometimes approaching it, empathising, but then increasingly destroying it. In terms of content and dramaturgy, the drama increases at each station: the alpinists' struggle for survival also becomes my struggle with the tents. Finally, at the end of the walk, I destroy the last tent, the protective cover.

The performance is dedicated to Cedric Hählen.