A production by ada – artistic dynamic association in cooperation with WERK X-Petersplatz and VORBRENNER of BRUX / Freies Theater Innsbruck.
Funded by the Cultural Department of the City of Vienna, the Austrian Federal Ministry for Arts (BKA Kunst), the State of Tyrol and the Cultural Commission of Vienna’s Inner City District.

Invited to PAF – Performing Arts Festival Berlin
Adapted as a audio play for ORF / Ö1 Kunstradio

“Sterile, precise, dystopian [...] The devised piece by director Miriam Schmidtke and performer Mimu Merz presents a cold, fully programmed world. [...] Rather than simply holding up a mirror to the audience, Schmidtke stages the bleak routines of everyday life: sleeping, eating, exercising, sex, exchanging pleasantries on repeat. The coherent performance can be read as a critical commentary on the automated mania of self-optimization.”

— Huy Van Jonny Diep, Der Standard

“In a world of sterile superficiality, the human being appears perpetually inadequate. Existence becomes a ritualized vegetating life filled with neurotic processes from which the performers attempt to emancipate themselves.
‘How can I actually protect my internal ecosystem, my own ecosystem, from what happens outside—but also partly from what happens inside me?’ [says Miriam Schmidtke]. Here, ‘ecosystem’ refers to the human psyche and body, exposed to a hostile and demanding world. In a sense, the inhuman conditions of the clean room continue to resonate in the gadgets created there and which go on to shape our lives — this is one possible interpretation of Miriam Schmidtke’s work.”

— Paul Lohberger, Deutschlandfunk Kultur – Corso