In the beginning was the ocean. Wind, perhaps, and billowing waves. Life emerged in the ocean – single-cell organisms at first, and then, sometime later, tardigrades, able to survive even nuclear apocalypse. Following many millions of years later, dinosaurs appeared, and finally, after eons of time: Humans. In the age of the Anthropocene, they made earth their own, filling it with human-made myths and purpose, with more life – and more destruction.

Performers: Timo Fredriksson, Anna-Maija Terävä, Annika Tudeer and Juha Valkeapää
Singers: Fee Suzanne de Ruiter, Harald Hieronymus Hein and Lukas Siebert
Musicians: Ensemble ö! (Marc Bonastre Rui, Branko Mlikota, Adrian Albaladejo Diaz, Dino Georgeton, Asia Ahmetjanova, David Sontòn Caflisch, Sofiia Suldina, Maria Kropotkina, Martina Brodbeck, Daniel Sailer, and Clara Giner)
Conductor: Armando Merino

Concept, Direction, Dramaturgy, Texts: Oblivia
Composer: Yiran Zhao
Sound director: Zoro Babel
Light design, objects: Meri Ekola
Costume design: Tua Helve
Production manager: Jenny Nordlund

Composition commissioned by the City of Munich for the Münchener Biennale
Coproduction by Münchener Biennale, Oblivia, Ensemble ö!
Funded by Kulturstiftung des Bundes and Beauftragte der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien
Supported by Arts Promotion Centre Finland, Svenska kulturfonden, Helsinki City
Residency at TD Berlin

Premiere 5.6.24 Münchener Biennale, HP8 Sendling, Munich

Photo by Tua Helve