Pop-Up Teahouse Berlin Salon Special: In Dialogue with director Su Xiaogang

In the afternoon of May 5th the Pop-Up Teahouse at C*SPACE opens its doors to offer it’s stage for Chinese avant-garde theatre & film director Su Xiaogang 苏小刚 who is visiting Berlin in the context of the ‘Theatertreffen Berlin’. He is going to show his film “Medea”. The screening is introduced by the Sinologist Stefan Christ and accompanied by live electronic music from Gaku, Cheng Yue, electronic trackmaker, producer and musician working in Japan and Beijing.

Tickets: no reservation needed, suggested 8-15 EURO donation at location

Teas and snacks offered.

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This complex work of art not only presents us with the harrowing life story of a modern Medea from China’s dystopian, arid West, it also weaves together inspirations from ancient Chinese mythology, Lu Xun’s New Year’s Sacrifice and Heiner Müller’s Medeamaterial to reflect on two major crises of our time. Su is not interested in the ideas of revenge and M**der usually associated with the Greek character, but in the relationship between humans and the environment, and the relationship between men and women. The harsh climate forces the Chinese Medea to leave her home and into an unhappy marriage, sending her into ever deeper despair and alienation from her surroundings, her wailing left unanswered by the merciless landscape.

Su Xiaogang, originally trained as an actor, has directed his own plays like The Chairs, Oedipus Rex, On the Search for the Dao, and Mauser on all major festivals in China, among them the Beijing Fringe Festival, the International Theater Festival Wuzhen and Aranya, but also internationally in Poland, France, Canada and Germany.

Gaku, Cheng Yue, is an electronic trackmaker, producer and musician working in Japan and Beijing.

Stefan Christ is a Sinologist and translator currently working as a research associate at the University of Erlangen.

About the location & Organizer:

The Pop-Up Teahouse Berlin at C*SPACE was initiated in 2020 to create - in times of disconnect - a space for transdisciplinary reflection, creation and connection among and with Chinese speaking communities in Berlin. C*SPACE is a not-for-profit creative space based in a former furniture factory in Berlin Weissensee dedicated to facilitating space for ideas and encounters across borders.

Host or Publisher C*SPACE