Die Mülheimer Müllviecher sind los.

Garbage becomes art and playful, collective resistance. - Plastic-free zone Mülheim!
The idea for this project arose during the time when we were all trapped in social isolation and the theater was also forced to close. How can we come to forms of common, solidary action after the quarantine? How can we use the experiences of the pandemic constructively and not lapse into a "business as usual"? How can a new beginning be achieved? What can we do to escape together from the constraints of an immoderate consumer society of which we are a part? The idea for a participatory project for and with the residents of the city developed from this, which explores a question that affects us all equally.

Employees of the theater tailor shop provided the decisive impetus. They suggested that we organize a large Corona expulsion procession with snapdragons, these strange ones of Tyrol. Thus, via detours, the conceivably simple idea of the Mülheimer Müllviecher was born: We transform plastic waste into artifacts that bind the garbage and at the same time open up the possibility to refer to our interaction with nature in a playful way. The first experiences with the construction were gathered in workshops with people from Mülheim in order to test the idea of whether everyone can actually create their own garbage beast. Plastic waste has proven to be a practicable material to be transformed into art and thus not to go the way into the oceans. Some of these foreign creatures, original only at first glance, have already quietly taken over the theater and aroused the interest of walkers in the windows of the foyer.

In the meantime, it has become clear that the Mülheim garbage creatures are capable of reason. What kind of artificial intelligence - it can't be anything else - is inherent in these garbage creatures? Possibly a species that is capable of making decisions that are not self-centered, but rather oriented toward the future and the common good?

What are we going to do with them? With the help of many Mülheimers, we want to create as many of them as possible and then let them run wild, admonishingly during small and large actions in the course of the season.
Contact:
audience.development [​at​] theater-an-der-ruhr.de