Projects

The state of things – object theatre (2024 – …)   The work is an immersive performance where the audience interacts in a playful way with the things that surround us. A random cast of everyday objects on a table that becomes a stage: There, an objectual universe of images and sounds unfolds where Shakespearean tragedy meets material agency, our emotional memory encounters planned obsolescence, and our desires for a present and future society meet the state of things.   [This show is supported by the NATIONAL THEATRE INSTITUTE (INT) and of Cordoba Culture Agency of the Province of Córdoba. It was also nominated for the Provincial Theatre Award SIRIPO in the category ‘Best Puppet/Object Theatre Production’, Cordoba 2025]   For all audiences (ages 12 and older) DURATION: 60 minutes aprox.   PRESENTATIONS: – International Puppet Festival PAN Y VINO, José de la Quintana (Cba, Arg). January 2026. – Espacio Blick, Córdoba (Arg). August 2025. – La Beba Teatro, Río Ceballos (Cba, Arg). August 2025. – Teatrino de la Trapalanda, Río Cuarto (Cba, Arg). July 2025. – El Cañito Cultural, Alta Gracia (Cba, Arg). May 2025. – Ojito de Agua, Tilcara (Jujuy, Arg.). May 2025. – La Mar en Coche, San Salvador de Jujuy (Jujuy, Arg). May 2025. – La Sodería, Tucumán (Arg). April 2025. – Centro Cultural San Francisco, San Francisco (Cba, Arg). April 2025. – Espacio Blick, Córdoba (Arg). March/April 2025. – La Pulpería Cultural, Luyaba (Cba, Arg). February 2025. – Sala Titiriseres, Villa de las Rosas (Córdoba, Argentina). February 2025. – Espacio Blick, Córdoba (Argentina). December 2024. (Premiere)     Cast: Concept, text, direction, edition and general production: Christina Ruf + Ariel Dávila (BiNeural-MonoKultur) Voices: Alicia Vissani / Gabriela Aguirre / Lautaro Signorile Audio design: Luis Obeid Design and creation of scenery and props: Carlos Barahona, Lilian Mendizabal, Agus Marquez Lighting design: Facundo Domínguez Grafik design: Natalia Rojo Advisors on the research process: Ana Alvarado, Darío Sandrone, Javier Swedzky, Carlos Piñero, Leonardo Volpedo Thanks to all the people who participated as test audiences.  

Estelas en el tiempo – un juego urbano (Trails in time – an urban game) (2023 / 2024 – …) The first version of the project was created as part of “UMWEGE / DESVÍOS” (Deviations) (curated by Aljoscha Begrich) at the Buenos Aires International Theater Festival FIBA 2023. Desvío OESTE: Estelas en el tiempo (DEVIATION WEST: Trails in Time – an urban game) The format can be adapted to other locations and circumstances. The second version was created for the Mercosur Festival for Children and Youth, Córdoba (2024).   With this proposal we invite the public to an adventure to discover the city, a journey through time and the things that surround us, a deviation from everyday attention. A group of people receive a kit and set out on a journey on foot solving a series of unknowns about the city and its mysteries while navigating through the past, present and future. If you could travel back in time, to what era would you travel? What does it mean to lose time? Do the things around us have a memory of their own? How does a fly perceive time? A stone? Would you like to be eternal? If the group of players meets this challenge, they may find some answers.   “Trails in time” is a playful-performance experience that invites a group of people to a game whose board is displayed in the streets, squares and buildings of the city. It is a “self-guided” journey that the public – turned into players – makes in order to live an experience that connects the participants both with the everyday urban environment and with the other people who undertake this path together walking the streets of the city in an unprecedented and collaborative way.   For all audiences (ages 12 and older, minors must be accompanied by an adult). DURATION: 120 minutes aprox. (Buenos Aires) / 75 minutos aprox (Córdoba)   PRESENTATIONS: – FIT Mercosur International Theater Festival for Children and Youth. Córdoba (Argentina). October 2024. – International Theatre Festival “Festival Internacional de Teatro de Buenos Aires” FIBA. February / March 2023.   CAST FIT Mercosur, Córdoba, 2024: Concept, dramaturgy, direction, and general production: Christina Ruf + Ariel Dávila (BiNeural-MonoKultur) Graphic design: Ieltxu Ortueta / Artefactos Bascos Special participation: Gabriela Aguirre Stage assistance: Sofia Grimaux Co-production: BiNeural-MonoKultur, FIT Mercosur Córdoba International Theater Festival for Children and Youth Thanks to: The staff of the Salón de los Gobernadores and Plaza Cielo y Tierra (Parque de las Tejas), Lore Lopes, and all the participants in the “guinea pig audience” trials.   Cast FIBA 2023, Buenos Aires: Concept, text and direction: Christina Ruf + Ariel Dávila (BiNeural-MonoKultur) Graphic design: Ieltxu Ortueta / Artefactos Bascos Participation especial: Gabriela Aguirre Realization of the printed materials: Horacio Bevaqua / Estudio 777 General production: Luz Algranti and Lucila Piffer Production assistant: Jazmin Robles Co-production: BiNeural-MonoKultur, International Theatre Festival “Festival Internacional de Buenos Aires” FIBA 2023 and Goethe-Institut Buenos Aires Thanks to: Don Luis of the watchmaking store of the subway Callao, Río Café Bar, National Museum of Natural Sciences Bernardino Rivadavia, Dario Sandrone, Lorena Lopes and all of the participants of our test walks.     About: UMWEGE – Deviations (Fiba 2023) Concept and curatorship: Aljoscha Begrich We always use the same paths. But how will we be able to create a society if we don’t try to expand our routines? Aljoscha Begrich invites four artists (some from Germany, some from Argentina) to develop deviations that take the public in four different directions to discover something unknown and experience the various layers of the city in public space. Aljoscha Begrich is a dramaturgist and curator, and studied in Berlin, Mexico DF and Puán. He worked with Lola Arias and Mariano Pensotti. With Rimini Protokoll he realized projects in Teheran and Havana. In Germany he works for the Ruhrtriennale and founded the OSTEN Festival.   [Photos: Celeste Alonso (BsAs), Ludmila Rossetti (Cba) + BiNeural-MonoKultur] You can see more photos here, in the Spanish News Section: Novedades – Estreno Estelas en el tiempo

Bailemos… que se acaba el mundo! Una audio-obra interactiva para bailar con el público (Let’s dance… the world is ending! An interactive audio-piece to dance with the audience) (2021 – …)   “Let’s dance … the world is ending!” is an interactive sound performance that invites the audience to dance as if they were at a local club. It reflects on our behaviour, our bodies and our community through dancing with the audience. Have you ever heard of the so-called choreomanias? What if we all catch a dance epidemic? How does the behavior of others influence us? What about seduction at dances? And in pandemics? How do we relate to others? Are we afraid to dance alone? An interactive game is proposed that invites us to reflect on these questions while doing what we like the most: Dancing. Dance before we die.   [This work received the production subsidy 2021 from the National Theatre Institute, the funding of the National Arts Fund FNA 2021 and was invited to participate at the international Performing Arts Market “MAPAS – Mercado de las Artes Performativas del atlántico sur” (Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain) 2021 and at the MICA 2022 (Buenos Aires). It was also nominated for the Provincial Theater Award “Siripo” in the category “Best theater/dance play”, Córdoba (Arg.) 2022. In September / October 2025, it received support from INT for an INTERNATIONAL TOUR to perform in Brazil.]   PRESENTATIONS: – International Dance Festival of Recife (Pernambuco, Brazil). October 2025. – FETEAG 2025 – Theatre Festival Agreste, Caruaru (Pernambuco, Brazil). October 2025. – Geko Beach Bar, Paraty (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil). September / October 2025. – International Theatre Festival for Children and Young People Paideia: A Window to Utopia, São Paulo (Brazil). September 2025. – CPC Nights, CPC Mercado Norte Córdoba (Arg). September 2025. – Preview presentation at the International Festival ““30° Encuentro Internacional de Teatro Independiente”, Río Ceballos (Cba, Arg). September 2025. – Villa Ciudad Parque (Cba, Arg). April 2025. – Casa 29, Unquillo (Cba, Arg). March 2025. – La Rosada Diversa, La Serranita (Cba, Arg). February 2025. – Participation in the program “Teatro Itinerante de Verano”, organized by the Córdoba Culture Agency e.o. Alcira Gigena (Cba, Arg). January 2025. – Festival CHASQUIDO – Festival del Corredor Escénico Paravachasca. Alta Gracia (Cba, Arg). November 2024. – El Cañito Cultural, Alta Gracia (Cba, Arg). October 2024. – La Rosada Diversa, La Serranita (Cba, Arg). October 2024. – Participation in the program “Vacaciones de Julio Itinerante”, organized by Agencia Córdoba Cultura e.o. Santa Eufemia (Cba, Arg). July 2024. – Participation in the program “Teatro Itinerante de Invierno”, organized by Agencia Córdoba Cultura e.o. Río Tercero (Cba, Arg). June 2024. – Centro Cultural España-Córdoba CCEC, Córdoba (Arg). May 2024. – Participation in the program “Teatro Itinerante de Verano”, organized by “Teatro Itinerante de Verano”, organized by Agencia Córdoba Cultura e.o. Anisacate (Cba, Arg). February 2024. – Festival Internacional de Teatro FIT Mercosur – Sección Corredores Teatrales. Luyaba (Cba, Arg). October 2023. – Tecnópolis / Situar Danza, Buenos Aires (Arg). July 2023. – International Theatre Festival “Temporada Alta”, Montevideo (Uruguay). February 2023. – Participation in the program “Teatro Itinerante de Verano”, organized by Agencia Córdoba Cultura a.o. Rayo Cortado (Cba, Arg). December 2022. – Chalet Hereje, Villa María (Cba, Arg.). December 2022. – Teatro La Luna, Córdoba (Arg.). October 2022. – Historic Cabildo of Cordoba (Arg). July 2022. – Mansa Mansión, Rio Ceballos (Cba, Arg). May 2022. – Cabañas La Vertiente, Villa La Bolsa (Cba, Arg). April 2022. – Anniversary for the 10 years of “Casa de la Cultura Río Cuarto”, Río Cuarto (Cba, Arg). April 2022. – Theater La Luna, Córdoba (Arg.). April 2022. – Festival “Fiesta Provincial de Teatro”, organized by the National Theater Institute / INT. Villa María (Cba, Arg). April 2022. – Theatre La Nave Escénica, Córdoba (Arg). March 2022. – Festival “100 Horas de Teatro”, Córdoba (Arg). November 2021. – Participation in the program “Argentina Florece”, organized by the National Theater Institute / INT. José de la Quintana (Córdoba, Arg). November 2021. – Participation in the program “Teatro y Participación”, organized by the National Theater Institute / INT y la Municipalidad de Córdoba. CPC Argüello, Córdoba (Argentina). November 2021. – Festival de Rafaela, Rafaela (Santa Fé, Argentina). November 2021. – International Theatre Festival MERCOSUR, Córdoba (Argentina). October 2021. – Theatre La Luna, Córdoba (Argentina). May / September / October 2021.   CAST: Concept, dramaturgy, direction, editing and general production: Christina Ruf + Ariel Dávila (BiNeural-MonoKultur) Choreographies: Florencia Baigorrí + Adrián Andrada Performers: Florencia Baigorrí + Adrián Andrada / Maximiliano Carrasco Garrido Voices: Gabriela Aguirre + Adrián Azaceta Sound design: Guillermo Ceballos Design and implementation of stage, props and lighting: Agustina Marquez Executive production: Lorena Lopes Graphic design: Natalia Rojo Press: Guadalupe Pedraza Photographic register: Belén Escobar Video record: Luis Gómez Thanks to: Gustavo Blázquez   DURATION: 60 minutes

MANO ÚNICA (ONE-WAY STREET) (2006)   Theatrical intervention in the Jesuit Crypt of Cordoba, which was rediscovered in 1989. During this intervention, the audience descends into the underworld of Cordoba, passing through the crypt’s ancient corridors, crossing paths with personalities from the city’s own history, as well as mythological figures. The spectators are guided by Tiresias through this urban Hades and pass through different dreamlike situations. The work was an attempt to recover the memory that lies hidden in the crypt.   Work presented within the context of the inauguration ceremonies of ‘Córdoba Capital Americana de la Cultura 2006’ (Cordoba – American capital of culture 2006). Córdoba, Argentina.   CAST: Acting: Valeria Urigu, Gabriela Aguirre, Marcelo Arbach, Leopoldo Cáceres, José “Pepe” Fernández Original Music: Guillermo Ceballos Video: Hernán Rossi Lights: Gonzalo Marull Concept, Dramaturgy and Direction: BiNeural-MonoKultur (Christina Ruf + Ariel Dávila)   DURATION: approx. 50 min.

VIRTUAL PERFORMANCES – Laboratorio para teatro virtual (VIRTUAL PERFORMANCES – laboratory for virtual theatre) (2008 – 2011)   The Virtual Performances Project consists of a series of virtual-theatrical interventions via Internet videoconferencing. It is conceived as a work-in-progress, open for new elements, themes and participants, in order to be able to react flexibly to incidents and current events. It consists of a series of different set-ups in different locations and interrelated in a network and with various topics using documentary theatre procedures with fictional elements. It is precisely for these features that it has the subtitle “virtual laboratory for theatre.” Virtual Performances is a mix of disciplines, it contains elements of theatre, visual arts and public intervention. It experiments with new technologies as artistic tools, and wants to explore the new possibilities of communication by means of New Technologies of Information and Communication (NTICs) and reflect on their consequences. The project is situated along the boundary between fiction and non-fiction, close to the documentary theatre, and is interested in integrating science into arts and arts into science. The original idea was conceived by Meret Kiderlen (Germany), Carolina Defossé (Argentina) and BiNeural-MonoKultur (Christina Ruf + Ariel Dávila / Germany, Argentina). Several artists from different countries like Germany, Argentina, Brazil, Colombia and Spain were involved in its development. Since the end of 2008 we started to work around the idea of using the new technologies of information and communication such as for example Skype (videoconference via internet) as a medium for scenic action. We ask ourselves: How could we interact, from the point of view of scenic-performative arts, through this medium of communication?   As a result of the meetings and exchanges between our continents and our research on the artistic possibilities it offers we have produced the following works so far: – “Skype me up to the Stars!” (2009) – homo-migrator.www (2011) – Conectados (2011)   The following other smaller and experimental productions were also made: – Lpz.-BsAs 15min (as part of the Argentine Film Festival in Leipzig, 2009) – Open rehearsals of the process of homo-migrator.www at the end of the artist residency Nau Côclea, Catalonia (Spain) (2010) and as part of the performance event Epipiderme in Lisbon (Portugal) (2010).   Open rehearsals of homo-migrator.www In terms of topic we were planning that this new version of the piece of documentary theatre with fictional elements would revolve around the issue of migration in general and in relation to the WorldWideWeb (www): Migration of people, but also migration of data, goods, information. How many times do we have to show our documents to a police authority? Will an avatar or virtual profile on the network need an identity document in the future? What is a foreigner, what does it mean to be in another place in the age of cyberspace? These were the main issues we wanted to address during the research process of creating the new Virtual Performances project that ultimately resulted in the work homo-migrator.www presented at the International Theatre Festival MERCOSUR, Cordoba (Argentina), 2011. CAST – Open rehearsal of homo-migrator.www in Epipiderme – encontros à volta da performance, Lisbon (Portugal), 2010. Conception: Meret Kiderlen (Leipzig, Germany) and BiNeural-MonoKultur (Ariel Dávila and Christina Ruf) Direction: BiNeural-MonoKultur With: Ieltxu Ortueta Martínez (Sao Paulo, Brasil) on the virtual stage and Ariel Dávila and Christina Ruf on the real stage.   CAST – Open rehearsal of homo-migrator.www in the residency Nau Côclea, Catalunya (Spain), 2010. Conception and direction: Meret Kiderlen (Leipzig, Germany) and BiNeural-MonoKultur (Ariel Dávila and Christina Ruf) With: Ieltxu Ortueta Martínez (Sao Paulo, Brazil) and Meret Kiderlen (Frankfurt, Germany) on the virtual stage + Ariel Dávila and Christina Ruf on the real stage.   “Lpz.-BsAs 15min.” First public experiment conducted in the third Argentine Film Festival in Leipzig (Germany). 2009. We approach the medium from the question of whether we are dealing with art that is more cinematic or theatrical. Because the receptive situation resembled a film presentation: A group of spectators watching a screen. We started a game of putting together a live action mini-movie: You see a scene with girl in her apartment, waiting for her boyfriend. When he arrives, they have a fight, the boyfriend leaves, and she is left alone again. We use the defects that occur with a medium such as videoconferencing via the Internet (connection failure, sound problems, or other technical failures); these supposed (or real) technical failures become an excuse for the actress to make personal explanations, read a letter or put makeup on in front of the camera for a few minutes before restarting the “scene”, or “take”. This way we also showed the theatrical side: everything the audience sees happened live and without the possibility of editing and invisible repetition. In the repetition the construction can be seen and the fictionalization of the interruptions enables contact with the public and the presentation of this new artistic medium/device.   CAST “Lpz.-BsAs 15min.” Idea: BiNeural-MonoKultur, Carolina Defossé, Meret Kiderlen Concept and development: Carolina Defossé, Meret Kiderlen Direction: Meret Kiderlen Acting: Carolina Defossé Video: Ivo Aichenbaum

Quem não luta tá morto! (Whoever doesn’t fight is already dead!) (X-Apartments) (2009)   “Quem não luta tá morto!” is a scenic-documentary installation that was performed as part of the X-APARTMENTS project, which tells of the process of eviction of the FLM (Frente de Luta pela Moradia – Front of the Struggle for Housing) / MSTC (Movimento dos Sem Teto do Centro – Central Homeless Movement) movement of an occupied building in downtown São Paulo (Brazil). For ten days BiNeural-MonoKultur accompanied a group of about 200 people who were camping next to the vacant building until they were given a temporary warehouse. The result was a video documentary and a photo exhibition where FLM members themselves told of their experiences during that period of ten days living on the streets, resisting the police, asking the national secretary of human rights for dignified housing. X-APARTMENTS is a project that transforms 22 departments of the city of São Paulo (Brazil) into areas of artistic intervention, mixing real life and fiction, opening the city’s windows and doors from new angles, revealing its details. Each residence receives 2 viewers / visitors every 10 minutes to participate in an artistic action. Conceived in 2002 by Matthias Lilienthal (Hebbel Theatre, Berlin), the project was set up in the cities of Berlin, Istanbul, Caracas among others. In São Paulo, X-APARTMENTS was realised by the SESC SP cultural centre and the Goethe Institute of São Paulo in collaboration with the Hebbel am Ufer theatre in Berlin.   Quem não luta tá morto! was presented during all of the days of X-MORADIAS in the city of São Paulo (Brazil) in June of 2009.   CAST: Concept, dramaturgy, documentation and realisation: Ariel Dávila and Christina Ruf (BiNeural-MonoKultur) Production assistant: Tieza Tissi In collaboration with the movement FLM / MSTC.

Skype me up to the stars! (Virtual Performances – laboratory for virtual theatre) (2009)   “Skype me up to the stars!” is the second work from the “Virtual Performances” laboratory. It consisted in a Skype transmission from Córdoba and Buenos Aires to Leipzig, for the commemoration of the International Year of Astronomy. The transmission from Córdoba was held at the Astronomical Observatory Museum of the National University, with participation of an actor who played astronomer. On the other side an actress-astrologer participated from a café in Buenos Aires. At the location of the audience, Leipzig, the piece generally pretended to be a lecture on the subject of Astronomy, which over time became increasingly fictional. During the first part of the set there was a small exhibition with related objects, and two “experts” were invited from Argentina to discuss the topic, with whom viewers could contact individually via Skype. Later on, the event was shown on a large screen, keeping its documentary-scientific character, always in a spirit of public interaction and maintaining a relationship with the place of transmission. What started as a conference gradually took on fictional elements, until ending in a nearly absurd scene of an Ed Wood style alien invasion of the Cordoba Observatory.   “Skype me up to the stars!” was debuted in June 2009 at the LOFFT theatre festival in Leipzig.     CAST: Concept and direction: Meret Kiderlen (Leipzig, Germany) + BiNeural-MonoKultur (Ariel Dávila + Christina Ruf) With: BUENOS AIRES: ASTROLOGER Carolina Defossé VIDEO Ivo Aichenbaum ASTROLOGICAL CONSULTING Willy Gugliermo CÓRDOBA: ASTRONOMER Hernán Rossi Fraire MUSIC Guillermo Ceballos ASTRONOMICAL CONSULTING Guillermo Goldes LEIPZIG: ASISSTANT DIRECTOR Judith Schrodtkötter CONSULTING María Cabrera Rivero ASISSTANT PRODUCER Claudia Gartner, Franziska Janetzky RECEPTION Annemarie Saß, Enrico Michelini, María Cabrera Rivero VIDEO TECHNIQUE Matthias Gruner PHOTOGRAPHY Paúl Escobar NETWORK TECHNOLOGY Alexander Gross Thanks to observatory Sternwarte Eilenburg + astronomical museum “D. F. Sarmiento – Dr. B. A. Gould” of Cordoba National University Astronomical Observatory.   DURATION: approx. 60 min.