Oblivia: Turn Turtle Turn

In the beginning was the ocean. Wind, perhaps, and billowing waves. Life emerged in the ocean – single-cell organisms at first, and then, sometime later, tardigrades, able to survive even nuclear apocalypse. Following many millions of years later, dinosaurs appeared, and finally, after eons of time: Humans. In the age of the Anthropocene, they made earth their own, filling it with human-made myths and purpose, with more life – and more destruction.

In Turn Turtle Turn, Oblivia’s largest-scale musical theatre production to date, which will see its premiere at the Münchener Biennale on June 5th, 2024, we will travel through time together: Set to music by eleven-piece Swiss ensemble ö in a composition by Yiran Zhao, the three soloist sing an Oblivia-made libretto that tells of beginning and end, of breath, grains of sand, and (in)finity – and of the long-extinct dodo whose species did not survive human intrusion into its habitat for long. With a space-sensitive arrangement of live music and electronic sounds, text fragments and vocals,we invite the audience into a playful exploration of earth’s status quo as a tiny dot amid the eternal time flow of life. In set-up, structure, and concept created not for the stage, but for the public space, we will not only turn the performance’s audience but also random passers-by at Munich’s HP8 into contemporary witnesses of our experimental-musical contemplation on the Anthropocene.

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Photo: Saara Autere