Online Projekts
Selected projects by PRUNK&PLASTE
I was a founding member of the collective PRUNK&PLASTE (2020–2025). Our aim was to bring together artists from the visual and performing arts within a theatrical context and to work across disciplines.
The focus lay on equal artistic contributions from both fields, as well as on the development of formats that combine theatre, visual art, game design, and film. In this process, the collective explored flexible working methods, flat hierarchies, and digital as well as hybrid projects.
X AND ONE NIGHT
2020-2022
Online Storytelling Series
Concept: Nanako Oizumi
Production: Prunk&Plaste
Project page on Instagram
Scheherazade tells the king a story each night. Just as dawn approaches, she interrupts her tale at a moment of great suspense, compelling the king to postpone her execution in order to hear what happens next.
Let us take a photograph. Let us begin to observe everyday objects—and together, let us assign them a story. This is how our small narrative series came into being. Each participant leaves an open chapter for the next day, allowing us to survive one more night—until we can return to the theatre.
Every evening, one person shares a photograph; the next invents a story in response and takes a new image that continues the narrative.
Seasen 4
By and with:
Sören Zweiniger
Insa Griesing
Nanako Oizumi
Peter Thiers
Theresa Welge
Mathilde Lehmann
Season 10
By and with:
Insa Griesing
Mathilde Lehmann
Sören Zweiniger
Nanako Oizumi
Katharina Zerr
Sofia Korcinskaja
Season 7
By and with:
Theresa Welge
Sofia Korcinskaja
Insa Griesing
Mathilde Lehmann
Sören Zweiniger
Katharina Zerr
Nanako Oizumi
Special Episode
By and with:
Mathilde Lehmann
Sören Zweiniger
Nanako Oizumi
Sofia Korcinskaja
MINIATURES
2020
Living Room Texts – a series by Peter Thiers
Project page
Arthur and Mina meet on the pages of Peter Thiers, in his living room. Week by week, they reappear in the homes of different members of the collective. Digital and in color, their fate is placed in unfamiliar hands—tossed between keyboard and camera.
Episode 2
Text: Peter Thiers Video: Nanako Oizumi
Arthur rummages through his bookshelf.
MINA What are you doing?
ARTHUR I remember stuffing my diary somewhere between the old paperbacks.
MINA Are you still trying to free yourself from the fact that you’re a fictional character?
ARTHUR If you’re only here to dump exposition, you can leave right away.
MINA And miss your desperate breakdown? I don’t think so.
Mina sits down next to him and starts eating a sandwich.
ARTHUR Where did you suddenly get—
MINA Apparently someone thought this might take a while. Don’t get distracted, Arthur. Diaries! Look!
Arthur carelessly throws several books off the shelf. Then he pulls out an old black notebook and opens it. It’s empty—filled with blank pages. Mina looks over his shoulder.
ARTHUR This can’t—
MINA Hm. Could’ve seen that coming.
ARTHUR But I remember writing in this diary, I remember shoving it into this shelf, I—
MINA Maybe it’s just laziness?
Arthur looks at her, confused.
MINA I mean, I’m not a writer, but it seems pretty plausible to create a character like you—someone who appears profound because he owns a huge bookshelf and keeps a daily diary. But actually filling those diaries with content? That’s a whole different level. At least in terms of effort.
Silence.
ARTHUR My life story was in that diary.
MINA Could you dial down the pathos just a tiny bit? Just a little? It may feel highly dramatic to you, but in reality it’s just trying too hard and quite hard to endure.
Mina takes another bite of her sandwich—soft, warm slices of bread with lettuce layered between cheese, giving it just the right texture.
MINA (chewing) You should learn to live in the present—with what you’re given—and not get too caught up in the past or the future. Be glad you’re not an archetype. You could have been one of those stubborn men from the 1960s—the steadfast center of your four-person family, rigid in pursuing your own interests, yet just vulnerable enough at the right moments to avoid appearing as a complete villain—only to end up, in some grand, pathos-filled moment, in the dark night of your soul, punching a fist-sized hole into your bathroom mirror, staring motionlessly at the shards and the blood between your knuckles, sinking into a gloomy melancholy that also reflects the slow decay of masculine ideals in the late twentieth century. (Silence.) Instead, you are— (she hesitates)—simply you, Arthur. Could’ve been worse.
MACBETH MACBETH MACBETH
2020
Video Isolation Project
Project Lead: Mathilde Lehmann, Katharina Lackmann
Editing and Post-Production: Mathilde Lehmann
Dramaturgy: Katharina Lackmann
Project page
Shakespeare’s Macbeth was written in quarantine during a time of plague. Inspired by this, over 30 artists from theatre and performance came together to create an isolation project under contemporary restrictions.
Each participant developed a scene from Macbeth within their own home, following three simple rules: the scene had to be performed at home, the full text had to be audible, and artistic freedom was unrestricted.
The project connects individual contributions into a collective exploration of isolation, creativity, and madness.
Created and performed by: Isabelle Becker, Ariana Emminghaus, Peter Fasching, Markus Foppe, Anna-Sophie Fritz, Guido Gallmann, Denis Geyersbach, Nadine Geyersbach, Insa Griesing, Bastian Hagen, Levin Handschuh, Christoph Heinrich, Nikolaij Janocha, Ralph Jung, Saskia Juliane Kummle, Katharina Lackmann, Mathilde Lehmann, Franz-Erdmann Meyer-Herder, Nanako Oizumi, Tina Orlovskij, Mirjam Rast, Frederik Rauscher, Justus Ritter, Stephanie Schadeweg, Fania Sorel, Alexander Swoboda, Vanessa Ueberacher, Canan Venzky, Theresa Welge, Linus Wirth, Katharina Zerr, Simon Zigah, Lucca Züchner, Sören Zweiniger
Video excerpt: ‘Before the Castle. Oboes.’ – Nanako Oizumi
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