Innovatie zou ons samenbrengen, nieuwe technologie zou ieder mens op de wereld met elkaar verbinden. Maar raken we juist niet verder van elkaar verwijderd dan ooit tevoren?
KNOT Kollektiv en Cie Nyff verkennen wat het betekent om onderdeel te zijn van iets groters dan onszelf. De Utrechtse wijk Overvecht dient als subject en inspiratie voor dit onderzoek, en dient ook als spiegel om te reflecteren op de onbewuste connecties die we dagelijks maken. Met circus, technologie en interactie onderzoekt dit duet hoe we onze ogen kunnen openen en een meer gevoelige toekomst kunnen bouwen.
“Isn’t everyone a part of everyone else?” ― Budd Schulberg
* Language no problem: Innovation was supposed to bring us together. Technology was meant to connect the world. But the distance between us has grown bigger than ever. This duet seeks to explore how we can build ourselves a more sensitive future.
The Sensitive Future’ was created as a result of KNOT Kollektiv’s appointment as Cafe Theater Festival Ondezoekers/Researchers for the season 2019/20.
As a part of this role, KNOT Kollektiv have been tasked with choosing one Utrecht district in which to base their research. Their choice to work in Overvecht was inspired by their continued search for a sense of community through performance. Overvecht is a district in which the levels of social inclusion are voted as lowest in Utrecht which proposed the challenge to KNOT Kollektiv to seek social cohesion within this diverse and disparate community. Over the course of six months, KNOT Kollektiv have discovered Overvecht through the words and actions of its inhabitants in Shopping Centre Overvecht where their research has been based. ‘The Sensitive Future’ will be a reflection of Overvecht and the wishes of its inhabitants for their more sensitive future.