Residentie: Moedertongen

Name: Residentie: Moedertongen - Rebekka Bangerter / Frascati Producties
Start: 2025-03-15T17:00:00+01:00
Location: Frascati, Amsterdam

Rebekka Bangerter / Frascati Producties

Sat 15 Mar ’25 17:00

An encounter between the audience and speakers of endangered languages.

Sat 15 Mar ’25

17:00

Sat 15 Mar ’25

17:00

Nes, 71

Frascati, Amsterdam

Studio 2

Tickets

Rebekka Bangerter uses her residency at Frascati Producties to continue her researchproject Moedertongen (Mutterzungen). Together with Asa Hendry (writer and performer), Solange P. Molu (linguist), and Felicia Touvenot (language activist) Rebekka brings the audience together with speakers of endangered languages. On March 15th Rebekka concludes her residency with a presentation in Studio 2 at Nes 71.

Of the approximately 7,000 languages spoken today, only 65 are considered safe, while nearly half are at risk of extinction within the next century. How can we shift the focus from dying to living? How can we find a balance between preservation and transformation? Does a language need to be "worth it"? Why is everyone speaking English? And what is untranslatable?

Moedertongen is an encounter in the dark between the audience and speakers of endangered languages, exploring mutual (mis)understanding and active listening as forms of empathetic exchange.

Location: Studio 2, Nes 71
Not wheelchair accessible

Credits

artistic direction and concept Rebekka Bangerter artistic collaboration and performance Asa Hendry, Solange P. Molu, Felicia Touvenot sound design assistance Dominic Röthlisberger dramaturgical support Henriette Festerling in collaboration with Gessnerallee Zurich supported by Stadt Zürich Kultur and Lia Rumantscha with special thanks to Juliana Matthew, Mariona Miret, Nina Postma, Quadriye Yildiz,
Amin El-Didi, Anna Feliu, Barahti Franaszek, Denise Ledermann, Hevin Karakurt, Julia Büsser, Ulysse Berdat, Viktoria Mytsyk, and many others

About Rebekka Bangerter

Rebekka Bangerter is a Swiss theater maker working as a freelance director, performer, dramaturge, and lecturer (University of the Arts Zurich), moving between different countries and exploring the boundaries of text- and language-based theater.

Before graduating in 2023 from the master’s program at DAS Theatre, she studied performance and new media in Buenos Aires, theater directing in Zürich, and philology and history in Basel.

Her work always begins with the co-presence of the audience and playfully explores the structuring of knowledge, language, and technology, as well as how we create community through communication and reality through language. By intertwining poetic, scientific, and algorithmic perspectives, she aims to question the techno-capitalist monopolization of our