Language: Non-verbal/English

This spring has been a reminder that we live in a world going through big changes. A series of crises has led to massive waves of fleeing and migration.

The french philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy thinks we have to redefine our entire idea of the world we live in. He uses the word inopiné, that can be translated to unexpected, to describe this.

The performance How to die – Inopiné uses this idea of the unexpected as a political and artistic tool to bring people together. The project involves artists and scientists from several disiplines. The migrant becomes a symbol for the unexpected, and the entire artistic team has worked with not knowing, migrating from their own mindset and out of their disiplines, becoming a stranger to themselves.

The performance tackles questions of cultural panic, ecological grief and the collapse of the climate. How are these questions connected? And how can we articulate a response to these overwhelming phenomenons?

How to die – inopiné  by Mia Habib Productions came to life through an invitation from the opera - NorrlandsOperan - in Umeå, and premiered there in the beginning of February this year. Mia Habib Productions recieve basic funding from Kulturrådet for the years 2019 – 2022.

NB: During the performance there will be some use of strobe lighting and theater smoke (not dangerous to breath) There is some dialogue in English. The performance ends outdoors.