The age of combustion will have come to an end. Before its traces disappear, the Emission Evidence Centre (EEC) is securing the evidence for the upcoming trial against humanity. In Offenbach am Main and Berlin-Mitte, the EEC begins its work at the power plant crime scene. Suspicious emitting events in history are reconstructed and recorded as evidence for future investigations. Why were chimneys smoking on the horizon? Why did the inhabitants of London go for a walk with torches in 1952? What will have been burnt? And for what purpose? The result is a psychogram of man as a smoke-emitting being and a collection of ephemeral evidence: bags of smoke, charcoal dust, burning cracklings. Testimonies about oil fires, combustion engines, meat production, forest fires, combined heat and power plants. At a time when more and more evidence is being covered up, PARA invites the dead of tomorrow to testify in smoke.
✕ Emission Evidence Center
Credits:
By and with: Peter Behrbohm, Lina Brion, Jonas Fischer, Josephine Hans, Amelie Neumann, Philipp Röding, Bastian Sistig, Kolja Vennewald and Joy Weinberger
Speakers: Hanna Steinmair & Richard Gonlag
Production management: Julia Klinkert
Co-production: PARA GbR with Künstlerhaus Mousonturm and the Monologfestival 2021
Made possible by the #TakeAction funding programme of the Fonds Darstellende Künste with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media