BE MY GUEST - 돼라 내 손님이 - SEI MEIN GAST

•  SYNOPSIS 

  
  “Be My Guest 돼라 내 손님이 Sei Mein Gast”
  is a performance that uses filmmaking as its foundation to question the hierarchy embedded in the relationship between host and guest. The work takes place on an actual film set and uses errors that occur during the shooting process as a medium to explore the boundaries between social norms and exclusion.
  
  The piece reconstructs the presence of the “unwelcome guest,” who appears to be welcomed on the surface but is ultimately pushed aside and rejected. This dynamic reflects how migrants and minorities are often regarded as a kind of “error” within social systems. Inspired by the concept of KopFino (Head Cinema), the work uses cinematic techniques such as cuts, retakes, and shifts in perspective. Unexpected errors that emerge during filming, along with repeated acts of correction, form a structure that reveals how social norms define errors and how those definitions shape the exclusion or inclusion of marginalized people.
  
  The 2024 presentation in Berlin focused on the perspectives of Asian migrant women, while the 2025 presentation in Seoul expanded the viewpoint through the voices of multinational protagonists, reconsidering the meaning of migration and the structural contradictions within social systems.
  
  After completing the performances in both cities, the project is now in the film editing stage.      

•  FULL CREDITS 

  
  Performance - 임지애 Jee-Ae Lim, 
  Maricarmen Gutiérrez Castro, Mmakgosi Kgabi 
  Cinematography / Lighting - Greta Markurt 
  Sound / Music - Jimmy Sert 지미 세르
  Editorial Design - 김정연 Jungyun Kim
  Stage Manager - 양정현 Jeong-hyun Yang
  Camera & Lighting Assistant - 방형권 Hyungkwon Paul Phang
  Script / Concept / Visualization / Direction - 
  박종빈 Jongbin Park, 박재평 Jae-Pyung Park
  
  Part of the 2025 Seoul Marginal Theatre Festival
  Organized by Lost Theater
  Co-organized by Seoul Marginal Theatre Festival
  
  Supported by
  Seoul Metropolitan Government
  Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture
  Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture Arts Support Program (Interdisciplinary Art)
  
  

THE HUNGER

•  SYNOPSIS 

       
  The Hunger is an exploration of the phenomenon of excess inspired by historical events fictionalised in the novel The Witness by Argentinian writer Juan José Saer. The Hunger follows the European colonisers‘ trails in the Rio de la Plata region in South America at the beginning of the 16th century. A group of indigenes attacks Spanish colonisers in the north of present-day Argentina. Only one person survives and becomes part of the Colastiné tribal community. After he gets freed by fellow Spaniards later on, he reflects and remembers his perceptions during the time he spent with the tribe.
  
  In The Hunger, cannibalistic rituals overlap with different forms of greed, from colonialism and consumption frenzy in today’s capitalist societies to the hyperproduction of an endless Now on social media. Cyclically recurring, collective rituals are used to establish a (feeble) sense of reality, a kind of „normality“ following their own social rules and conventions. The „transformation of taboo into totem“ finds an echo in new forms of shifting boundaries, while our own privacy is swallowed up by the representational logics of the digital world.
  
  Does reality only exist if you’re observing it?
  

•  FULL CREDITS 

        
  by and with - Candaş Baş, Adaya Berkovich, Alexandra Bódi, Emil Bordás, Chloe Chua, Oksana Chupryniuk, Deborah Dalla Valle, WooSang Jeon, Khaled, Moritz Lucht, Thulani Lord Mgidi, Steph Quinci, Anne Ratte-Polle, Miki Shoji, Shiori Sumikawa
  Concept, Direction & Choreography - Constanza Macras
  Stage Design - Simon Lesemann
  Costume Design - Slavna Martinovic
  Music - Robert Lippok
  Composition of Choral Music - Kristina Lösche-Löwensen
  Lighting - Kevin Sock
  Live Camera - Greta Markurt, Kathrin Krottenthaler
  Dramaturgy - Carmen Mehnert, Tamara Saphir, Leonie Hahn
  Photos - Thomas Aurin