2025 NEULAND — Kollektiv Chroma

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NEULAND

Starting from the deep time of landscapes, the performance explores how humans might reconnect with the living matter beneath their feet. Two figures, a human and a cyborg, emerge in a silver-wrapped terrain, shaped by remnants of peat, water, and synthetic materials. Their encounter unfolds as a process of transformation: gestures shift from extraction to care, from distance to cohabitation. A degraded landscape becomes a shared space of tactile knowledge, collective rhythms, and embodied memory.

The live performance continues the film Shifting Grounds, translating its ecological questions into physical presence, intimacy, and spatial experience.

Photography ©Lida Freudenreich

NEULANDa performance about the future of wetlands

Direction
Eva Schneuwly

Screenwriting
Eva Schneuwly
Zana Selimi

Production
Eva Schneuwly

Introduction Film Shifting Grounds by
Zana Selimi
Justus Briese

Sounddesign
Mike Utiger

Choreografie
Lisa Kilthau-Merscher

Production Design
Studio V3RDE
Nina Dettwiler
Maëlle Leonie Odermatt
Frederic Huber

Costume
Simona Schlegel

Make-Up
Paul Grieguszies
Andy Lörtscher

Gaffer
Lea Studer
Line De Kaenel

Color Grading
Raphael Stäger

Extras
Sophia Begun
Charlotte Matthiessen
Nicola Oberholzer
Maëlle Odermatt

Performance
Cathrin Merscher
Lisa Kilthau-Merscher

Scientific Expertise Biodiversity
Leah Spirk

Scientific Expertise Technology
Simon Jeger

Fragment of «Hybridlandschaft» by
Ansgar Stadler
Eva Schneuwly

supported by
Grünstadt Zürich

RELEASEZurich Design Week
Stadtgärtnerei, Zürich
Tickets

Wednesday, 10/09/2025
Thursday, 11/09/2025
Friday, 12/09/2025
Saturday, 13/09/2025

in collaboration with
Johanna Roth
Larmao Studio
Marcel Rikli
Nicolas Schwegler
Rik Bovens

Studio Proxi
Studio V3RDE

SNEAK PEEKKontextur Podcast Festival

Tickets

k-Haus, Basel
Saturday, 31/05/2025

with
Livio Eiholz
Johanna Roth

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