At this year's Berlin Science Week, the Medientheater presents a guest performance from São Paulo, followed by an exchange about artistic research.

Friday, 06.11.2026, 18:15–18:45: Performance

How does a hyper-connected society get under our skin? Post-Urban Paranoia is a multimedia piece for three performers and a video screen, created by the Brazilian theatre company Cia. Espelho dos Olhos and adapted for the Medientheater at Humboldt-Universität. Weaving together theatre, dance, music, video art, and artificial intelligence, the performance builds a hybrid narrative about life in the contemporary metropolis. It traces how the pressures of digital society — constant connectivity, isolation, subtle violence, and the paranoia of permanent self-performance — become physically inscribed into our bodies and our everyday routines. Seen through a post-urban lens, the work also opens up urgent questions of gender, age, and representation in an ageing digital society. Developed primarily by women artists, the piece approaches the stage as a site of research. Audiences are invited to encounter the central questions of our digital present not only intellectually, but physically and emotionally — to feel them rather than simply think them.

Saturday, 07.11.2026, 11:00–14:00: Workshop

What happens when a performance becomes an tool of inquiry? The day after Post-Urban Paranoia takes the stage, this symposium turns the work itself into a starting point for reflection.

Location:

Medientheater der Humboldt-Universität

Georgenstr. 47

10117 Berlin

(poster: Hugo Fortes)