Studio Julian Hetzel - There Will Be Light
About this activity.
In his works, theatre maker Julian Hetzel shakes up our view of the world. In There Will Be Light he is presenting an alternative for the way we live and our relationship with work. Societies today are determined by work: work to produce value, to set a goal, to acquire status. These days imagining the end of the world is easier than picturing the end of capitalism. But what would we be if we didn’t have to work?
Hetzel is making a radical gesture: he is taking one basic income from his own cultural funding, and giving it to one person. In other words: someone will be given € 15.000. Something for nothing. The money is an invitation to escape the world of obligation and enter a world of desire. Everybody has a chance, everybody can apply. A committee of alternative experts, consisting of homeless people, will select the chosen one. From 24 June to 1 July, the audience is invited to explore an artificial beach at Grand Theatre, attend interviews, or to apply themselves.
There Will Be Light is a project about life as art and art as work. The real performance begins after the applause, at the very moment when the show is over and the audience returns home. For one whole year, seven days a week, 24 hours a day, the ‘chosen one’ will perform an improvisation called ‘life’. Stop working, and become an artist!
Visiting hours: You can visit the interviews on the artificial beach continuously from 24 June to 1 July between 14:00 and 20:00.
There Will Be Light - An Open Conversation: In the context of There Will Be Light, on June 30th, Studio Julian Hetzel i.c.w. Grand Theatre Groningen organises an open conversation with Denise Harleman from Collectief Kapitaal and theatre critic Wouter Hillaert to discuss some pressing questions raised by the project. Moderator: René Duursma.
Grand Theatre.
In een dynamische combinatie van presenteren en produceren wordt samen met kunstenaars, partners en publiek gezocht naar nieuwe gedachten, verbanden en werkwijzen. Vanuit een blijvende passie voor theater, dans, muziek en muziektheater stelt het podium zich open voor de stad als plek voor artistieke en maatschappelijke betekenisgeving in een voortdurend veranderende wereld.
Location.
Grand Theatre
Grote Markt 35
tel 06 436 000 93
www.grandtheatregroningen.nl