Into the Chronosphere

The unveiling of the central exhibit is imminent – the highlight of the exhibition. But then something shifts in space and time. The floor, by turns solid and sandy, expands and contracts. Guided by turtles, the ticking of clocks and the sound of their own voices, through imperial archives, anthills and quantum computers, the three protagonists set out in search of the origin of their own time.

In *Into the Chronosphere*, Sisi Bo’wale and his team weave together performance, music, poetry and psychedelic imagery into a tongue-in-cheek, queer, Afrofuturist collage.

At the heart of the piece lies the meaning of time and the protagonists’ attempt to liberate it from its colonial, exploitation-driven linearity.

*Into the Chronosphere* is the logical continuation of Sisi Bo’wale’s own artistic project: through poetry, collages, zines and films, he has been working for several years to deconstruct dominant notions of time and – drawing on surrealist and Afrofuturist art forms – to create his own artistic worlds of time.

And yet *Into the Chronosphere* is a debut – Sisi Bo’wale’s directorial debut at the Ballhaus Naunynstraße. The actor, filmmaker, visual artist and author previously created his full-length solo performance *Moonflavoured Mountains* (2025) and, as part of the *akademie der autodidakten*, acted as director for the production *Weaving Dreams* (2026).

• In German and English with German and English surtitles