MμRMUR is Fronte Vacuo’s seventh episode of the Humane Methods saga. The piece, presented at Conflux Festival 2024, is a travelling performance that combines street theatre, body art, interactive musical instruments and live video streaming. The work reflects on forced displacement as a key implication of the ongoing ecological disruption. With new geographies emerging, new biotopes being established, interactions and conflicts across species arise.

During their residency at iii, Fronte Vacuo (a transdisciplinary performance group founded by artists Marco Donnarumma, Margherita Pevere and Andrea Familari) developed a durational endurance performance taking place over two days, in which the otherworldly characters of the Deer, the Officiant and the Shadow walked from The Hague to Rotterdam, engaging urban and rural communities with the notion of displacement and its power dynamics.

MμRMUR 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 with presentation partner: Conflux Festival. Funded by the Austrian Bundesministerium für Kunst, Kultur, öffentlicher Dienst und Sport.

Videography: Tanja Busking