© TÒ SU
OVERSEAS
multi channel film installation | Germany | 60 min | colour | 4k & HD | stereo | 2022
Language: Kiribati with optionally German, Italian or English subtitles
SYNOPSIS
During the Covid 19 pandemic, numerous sailors from the Pacific island state of Kiribati were stranded in the port of Hamburg. In an unlikely collaboration, the German-Italian artist duo TÒ SU worked with them to develop the immersive film installation OVERSEAS. In a flooded stage space the audience is immersed in the seafarers’ stories of longing and separation, money and recognition, pride an community, environmental and climate risks. Using documentary-performative means, the artists make inside views of the global movement of goods and its vulnerability visible and tangible. OVERSEAS is the first part of a trilogy about the realities of life and working conditions on the high seas.
CREDITS
experts/performers ITIMATANG BUARO, ITINNANG YEE-ON, KAKIABA KANUTO, KATIKUNTEATA MTAROO, TAAIKU KEBWATI, TOOTOA MATITA
conzept, image, editing & space TÒ SU |
MARTINA MAHLKNECHT & MARTIN PRINOTH
expert international transport workers’ federation (ITF) MARKUS WICHMANN
transscript and translation Kiribati OTEN THOMAS
sound composition KONSTANTIN BESSONOV
light design HENNING EGGERS
technical video supervision LUCA KOWALINSKI
dramaturgy ANNA TEUWEN
translation VALERIO B. MOSER, ANNIKA SCHARM
set assistant MONA RIZAJ
text leaflet LEONORE SPEMANN
graphics BÜRO KLASS
production consulting and pr STÜCKLIESEL
thanks to THE KIRIBATI COMMUNITY, COSTANTINA DEMETZ, NADINE DROSTE, JÖRN HILLE, CAROLA KRAATZ, EGON LARDSCHNEIDER, MAJA MALZ, SARA MUNDT, SEEMANNSMISSION HAMBURG-ALTONA E.V., PAUL STRUGALLA, FIETE STURM, ENRIQUE VARGA
© Juha Hansen, Luca Guadagnini
SHOWS
> Season opening 2022/23 Kampnagel Hamburg, Germany
> Transart Festival 22 NOI Techpark Bolzano/Bozen, Italy
> MARKK Museum am Rothenbaum Kulturen und Künste der Welt, Germany 20.7. – 20.09.2023
PRESS
> Alto Adige
> franz magazin
> Südtiroler Tageszeitung
> DOWNLOAD LEAFLET
> READ TEXT BY LEONORE SPEMANN
> VIDEO DOCUMENTATION
SUPPORTERS
OVERSEAS is a production by TÒ SU in co-production with Kampangel Hamburg and transart festival of contemporary culture Bozen/Bolzano supported by Hamburger Kulturbehörde, Stiftung Kunstfonds Neustart Kultur, Hamburgische Kulturstiftung and the Autonomous Region of Bolzano/Bozen – Alto Adige/Südtirol
