Performance by Ixchel Mendoza Hernández
“A Scenario Of A System Off” is a new performance by Mexican artist Ixchel Mendoza Hernández, which invites us to grapple with our sense of perception. In the gaps between memory and imagination, the work explores how everyday gestures, words and surroundings change when systems of language and categorisation start to falter.
Repetitive loops made out of movement, text and sound are used to transform normal situations - like the simple phrase “I sat here” - into riddles, contradictions and poetic detours. “A Scenario Of A System Off” will celebrate its premiere in Radialsystem shortly before Christmas.
Three dancers move in dialogue with “invisible” beings on the stage, forming a changeable interplay between bodies, voices and soundscapes. Lengths of material are used to create different spaces, becoming transparent shells that capture fleeting light or projections.
The performance engages with the power of the imagination as a political and philosophical tool: Instead of presenting a linear narrative, the performance unfolds as a dynamic system with different levels of perception and possibilities. “A Scenario Of A System Off” transports the audience into a world in which meaning is not tied down, exploring how repetition, transformation and associative perception can open new paths towards an understanding, imagining, and living of the world.
Additional information
A production by Ixchel Mendoza Hernández. Funded by the Capital Cultural Fund. In co-production with Radialsystem. With the kind support of Something Great – Centre for International Contemporary Performing Arts.
Media partnerships Radialsystem: The Berliner, Rausgegangen, taz. die tageszeitung and tip Berlin.
Media partnerships Radialsystem: The Berliner, Rausgegangen, taz. die tageszeitung and tip Berlin.
Participating artists
Ixchel Mendoza Hernández (Konzept, Choreografie, Text und Performance)
Chihiro Araki, Angelo Petracca (Performance und Co-Kreation)
Hyewon Suk (Ton und Komposition)
Annegret Schalke (Licht und Mapping)
Warja Rybakova (Kreative Technologin)
Dora Đurkesac (Bühnenbild und Bilder)
Malena Modéer (Kostüm)
Jenny Mahla (Dramaturgie)
Dates
December 2025
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