Fear Machine

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  Fear Machine

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  Fear Machine

How should we respond to the increasing approval for racist and exclusionary positions among significant segments of the population? FEAR MACHINE brings to the stage a sequence of events that reveals the connection between colonial history and the current expansion of anti-immigration policies in Europe. It highlights how modern borders, both concrete and symbolic, continue to be built upon the political and economic profits of colonial practices. To suppress public awareness and reactions, those who hold political and financial power combine a crude and blunt nationalism with sophisticated communication technologies to manipulate fear and frustration. By offering “easy solutions”, they exploit processes of “othering” and polarization. Mass and social media function as key elements for transforming the social frustration into fear of the “others”: the fear of losing the job becomes the fear of new immigrant colleagues, the fear of losing the flat turns into the fear of new neighbors, the fear of losing understanding and connection becomes the fear of unfamiliar cultures and the fear of future is reframed as fear of diversity. They make resistance increasingly difficult by capturing and reworking feminist and left-wing slogans into conservative statements that legitimize sexism and patriarchal notions of family. As a result, the activists are left speechless.

120 Minuten

KURINGA is a space for Theatre of the Oppressed and “Teatro de las Oprimidas” in Berlin. It’s a creative space for aesthetic research, artistic productions and interaction with the audience, where collectives develop, rehearse, and present their theatre projects.
There is a lot to celebrate about 15 years of existence. KURINGA has trained hundreds of facilitators, established theatre collectives, and produced dozens of performances that have been presented to thousands of spectators in Germany and in countries across Europe and Latin America.Artistic Director: Bárbara Santos Music director: Till Baumman Cast : KURINGA Ensemble

Next date:

• Date Thursday, 27/August/2026 19:00
• Venue Uferstudios
• Address Uferstraße 23, 13357 Berlin-Wedding