20 – 21.09.2024
Various Locations
Live link Friday HERE
Live link Saturday HERE
Rotterdam
More info HERE
tickets: https://www.confluxfestival.nl/tickets/

The performance will take place in two parts across two days. It will start at 14:00 at the iii workspace on Friday 20th, on Saturday 21st the first meeting point is at Rotterdam train station at 16:40. There will also be points along the routes where the audience can join as well as a live stream that will be shared at Conflux in Rotterdam.

With great pleasure, we can announce the premier of Fronte Vacuo’s MμRMUR: The Deer, our second commission this year, at Conflux. In their durational endurance performance, over 2 days the group will slowly move through the Dutch landscape while continuously interacting and exploring their environment. 

In MμRMUR: The Deer, the otherworldly characters from the Humane Methods saga hit the streets engaging the people around them to reflect on the morphing of local ecosystems. This 24 km long walking performance, is  a quest for post-human empathy, a rite to attune with kin species. The journey speaks to the world through  silent rituals, operatic murmurs, and biophysical music. The performance begins at iii in The Hague and travels to Conflux Festival in Rotterdam, stretching and sieving across the territory in between. The piece combines street theatre, body art, interactive musical instruments and live video streaming. The travelling group includes three characters – each one with its own symbolism. 

Audiences are invited to witness the trio departure at iii and their arrival at Conflux Festival at dedicated locations, and more excitingly, to join them along the walk for whatever amount of time one may feel suitable. The trio will invite more people along the way and whoever can join the group and leave at any time. Yet the piece expands beyond the physical realm of the streets into the data world. The entire performance is continuously filmed live by a walking crew, transforming the performance into a cinematic, surrealist audiovisual experience that is streamed in real time online, as well as at dedicated venues in The Hague and Rotterdam, making it accessible worldwide, minute by minute, step by step.

MμRMUR: The Deer is a production by Fronte Vacuo GbR realized as a part of the HUMANE METHODS performance series ideated and produced by Fronte Vacuo GbR (Donnarumma, Pevere and Familari). Co-produced by Volkstheater Wien and commissioned by iii instrumentinventors.org. Funded by the Austrian Bundesministerium für Kunst, Kultur, öffentlicher Dienst und Sport.