DETROIT

Montserrat Gardó Castillo & Petr Hastik

A car accident is a break-in: the irruption of the uncontrollable into the continuity of everyday life. And it never arrives alone. Before it can be processed, it fills with images already in place: scenes from movies, the visual fascination of impact, the logic of collision trained by years of gaming. In 2019, Montserrat Gardó Castillo and Petr Hastik had a car accident in Detroit, the city that built the automobile as a symbol of industrial power and freedom and then watched that power collapse. DETROIT starts from that event and from the questions it left behind: how a memory forms, how it changes, how it gets shared and how it mixes with fiction.

The piece works with reenactment in different forms, from the body to a live multiplayer session of Grand Theft Auto, the iconic open world video game. Built as a modular score of scenes and fragments, it moves between essay, concert and choreography. The music returns to techno as a Detroit sound and to the serial, assembly line logic the city was built on. The evening asks what remains of an experience once it has passed through fate, fiction and machine.

Concept, direction and performance Montserrat Gardó Castillo & Petr Hastik
Performance Nick Mansfield
Music and performance Marcus Thomas
Musical advisor Ted Gaier
Technical direction/sound/video/lighting design Jörn Nettingsmeier
Dramaturgy Marc Villanueva Mir
Stage design Knut Klaßen
Costume design Arturo Lugo
Production management Karolina Maria Knoll
With special thanks to Prof. Dr. Nicola Ferdinand and subbotnik

Produced by Montserrat Gardó Castillo & Petr Hastik coproduced by FFT Düsseldorf and Stiftung van Meeteren, funded by the Ministerium für Kultur und Wissenschaft des Landes NRW, NRW Landesbüro Freie Darstellende Künste, Kunststiftung NRW, Kulturamt Düsseldorf and NRW Kultursekretariat.

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Montserrat Gardó Castillo & Petr Hastik

Previous dates

Düsseldorf | FFT
24.09.26 20h
25.09.26 20h
26.09.26 20h