thiS is nOt a Sunset can be performed as a theatre version as well as in a galery.

What happens when suddenly everything is different – when control over one’s own body slips away, when the relation to space, time, objects, and other people feels like an outdated operating system that can no longer cope with the world’s latest update?

When the world we know loses its order – OUT OF ORDER, as if the system itself had been shut down? Concepts and habits once familiar begin to crumble. What was valid yesterday is already fragile today. There are no points of reference, no framework, no concept.

Together, the four performers wrestle with this state that exists beyond all definition. They are present, and yet not. They inhabit an in-between – between yesterday and tomorrow, between body and thought, between existence and possibility. A condition that makes them vulnerable, but also curious. They look at each other, yet their gazes miss. “What is this?” one asks – or perhaps only thinks it.

They search for a new order, for grounding, for a new grammar of being. They feel their way through the flicker of a world that is rearranging itself. In the chaos of the unfamiliar,
gaps and interstices open, and within them something begins to glimmer – a new order, still unformed, a language of togetherness. Not a language of certainty, but a fragile alliance in becoming. This interplay of uncertainty and curiosity generates not only disorientation and chaos, but also space – for a new understanding of order, a trembling, quiet form of connection and strength in a world that no longer recognizes itself.

A fragile, dynamic landscape emerges – vulnerable and resilient at once.

'this is not a sunset' mirrors the fragility of our time.

"Echoes of Eugène Ionesco’s Theatre of the Absurd may have left some viewers perplexed, yet most were likely prompted to reflect — for the visual imagery undoubtedly lingers on, resonating in both the subconscious and the mind long after the performance has ended." Drehpunkt Kultur: Brigitte Janoschka

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