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Performance "I don’t want to set the world on fire" / Heidelberger Frühling

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Three stepped, layered mound sculptures resembling topographic models sit on a dark floor in a curved‐walled gallery. One mound is in the foreground right, another midground center, and a third in the background left. A large rectangular screen on the right and overhead light fixtures cast diffuse light.
Image: Vojtech Veskrna by sikau/pubalova
Starts on
17.04.26

20:00

Metropolink’s Commissary
South Gettysburg Avenue 45
69124 Heidelberg

Event access: Public

The planet sounds feverish. On it, people sense dissonances between lifestyle, the climate crisis and the future. The Festivalcampus LAB project invites you to Metropolink's Commissary, an extraordinary place for urban art. The young artists are keen to explore the burning issues of our time in a laboratory-like way, shedding light on a little-noticed aspect of current discourses on the future: "ecological grief". Their production explores the state of mind of a generation facing frightening living conditions. In collaboration with director Lea Luka Sikau from Die Junge Akademie and international climate scientists, they have created an immersive performance with sound and language.

As part of the project "I don't want to set the world on fire", the Research Group Sustainability is addressing the psychological challenges of climate change – bringing together perspectives from agricultural sociology (Hermine Mitter), environmental policy (Linus Mattauch), cultural anthropology (Helen Ahner), human geography (Sarah Klosterkamp), sound ethnography (Lea Luka Sikau), and choreography (Senem Gökçe Oğultekin), among others.

Tickets for the performance can be purchased via the Heidelberger Frühling website.

The complete programme for the Heidelberger Frühling Musikfestival (14 March to 19 April 2026) can be found here.

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