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LOCATION:Deutsche Oper Berlin\, Berlin
SUMMARY:Satisfactionaction
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DESCRIPTION:This musical theatre installation creates a space in which sati
 sfaction can be experienced immersively and celebrated collectively\, and 
 in which the audience will be fully entertained through a multi-sensory ex
 perience. But can this honestly escapist shared experience really counterb
 alance the constant feeling of crisis and overwhelm?\nA collective media m
 editation: coloured foam is gently sliced into disks\, a dirty carpet gets
  a thorough deep clean\, a hydraulic press crushes a variety of objects. P
 ointless processes\, absurd repetitions\, one-size-fits-all automations: t
 hey all trigger a sense of contentment and wellbeing in us as a counterpoi
 nt to an increasingly complex reality. “Oddly Satisfying” is the name 
 given to an internet phenomenon that forms the focus of SATISFACTIONACTION
 \, an installation that has attracted millions of views on multiple platfo
 rms. Most of us are familiar with the odd sense of comfort afforded by day
 -to-day routine actions. Suddenly everything jells\, luggage fits snugly i
 nto the car boot\, the train is caught calmly with a minute to spare\, the
  blackhead is discreetly squeezed. What is it that gives us that warm feel
 ing and what lengths are we prepared to go to to bring it about? Do these 
 hard-to-define mechanisms function only on an innocent neuronal level or i
 s there a social element at play involving norms of behaviour\, success an
 d failure\, belonging and exclusion? And are these deep-seated needs not a
 lso met by our schadenfreude at the plight of an irritating colleague or b
 y our membership of a group\, which automatically implies the exclusion of
  others?\n\nIn SATISFACTIONACTION the gratification is both felt on an ind
 ividual level and celebrated communally\, with the public immersed in a mu
 ltisensory experience. It also poses the question: can a transparently esc
 apist\, communal moment counterbalance a permanent feeling of crisis and p
 ressure? Does communal satisfaction provide the basis for agreeing on a ne
 w understanding of reality\, or is it just us running away from a world on
  fire?\n\nSpotlightThe contemporary music of composer Max Andrzejewski is 
 informed by the minimal and jazz genres and the ASMR movement. As a percus
 sionist with improvised-music leanings\, he is also one of the eight membe
 rs of the SATISFACTIONACTION ensemble\, which is made up of Kaleidoskop so
 loists and other musicians with close artistic links to Andrzejewski. This
  collaboration with the singers of the Vocantare Chorus and choreographer 
 Sylvana Seddig is embedded within the space and video installation of Luka
 s Zerbst. The result is a composition consisting of spatially and temporal
 ly shifting and overlapping layers\, merging into constellations\, one tha
 t mirrors and renders experiential the bases of our need for fulfilment.
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