Duration: 45 min
Information: In English language. German surtitles are displayed in the VR glasses.
In times of biohacking, clones, and artificial intelligence, the boundaries of life, death, and finality are shifting. BLUR investigates this threshold and allows for what theatre can be. The audience is invited to dive into a virtual world. It appeals to all the senses and engenders the feeling of a new way of being, but it also destabilizes certain ties. Each visitor gets virtual reality glasses and then enters an artificially created world where everyone is an avatar. Motion Capture, a movement software, translates the visitors’ movements to the digital world. Body, voice, and spatial orientation exist simultaneously in real and digital worlds. Presence grows fragile, not exactly tangible.
From 18 June to 5 July 2026, Chemnitz will be in the international spotlight: Germany's largest international theatre festival "Theatre of the World" is coming to Chemnitz - directly following the Capital of Culture year 2025. For three weeks, Chemnitz will become a meeting place for artists, spectators and theatre enthusiasts from all over the world. A lively celebration of the performing arts will take place on stages, in urban spaces and in unusual locations, overcoming borders and bringing together stories from all parts of the world.
Nine international curators from Australia, Canada, Colombia, Argentina, South Africa, Greece, Jordan, India, Senegal and China are responsible for the festival programme. They will meet in Chemnitz in November to select around 40 outstanding productions - works that they have previously viewed in their regions. The result is an inspiring panorama of current theatre forms, languages and perspectives.
