LESS IS NOW · Showing

a performance showing on degrowth

31 October 2023

19:30 Opening doors
20:00 Start
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URBANRAUM | Urbanstraße 93, 10967 Berlin
U7 / U8 Hermannplatz
Free entrance
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This showing is the result of the performance project LESS IS NOW that we have been devising together for the last two months.

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If you have lived on this planet in the last 5 years you have probably heard of degrowth or, failing that, the much more spectacular variant of Collapse. There is not much room for doubt even if the truth may be uncomfortable: the future is far from bright and splendid if we are faced with cyclical crises, climate emergency, scarcity, resource depletion, extinction, and a general loss of resources.

To our capitalistic imaginary based on limitless growth and progress, the idea of degrowth may sound scary, but…

• Is the end of material abundance as we know it –with all its well-known drawbacks like: wild consumerism, eternal wastefulness, exploitation (as the main form of productivity), industrialisation of nature, hard individualism (and related mental illnesses), etc.– the beginning of the worst dystopia?
• Or is it perhaps an opportunity to rethink, reorganise or even recover ancient/extinct ways of life and social relations that we lost along the way?

Scarcity vs excess
Austerity vs exuberance
Deficit vs opulence

Be welcome to our first attempt to perform a degrowing event.

Maximal minimalism | Minimal maximalism