Dates
| 10.07.2026 / 19:00 |
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How could viruses, humans and swine live together in more mutualistic and less exploitative ways?
Organisms Democracy Prague starts with the performance lecture „Who Will Kill the Winner?“ In the format of a “Species Debate” a wild boar debates with the ASF-virus about the role of antagonistic species in ecosystems shaped by humans. The ASF-Virus has first been introduced to european european industrial pig farming in 1957 and has been influential in shaping human hygiene and border policies in Europe ever since then. By confronting the agency of the Virus within the human economical and hygienical regimes with the position of a swine that is endagered by the virus as well as by the humans the performance opens a debate on how viruses, humans and swine could live together in more mutualistic and less parasitical or exploitative ways.
Photos: Šimon Lupták
The program is conducted in English / Recommended for ages 12 and up / 25 minutes + discussion
The artists group Club Real was founded in 2000 and is devising and realising participatory site-specific projects: Installations, one-to-one encounters, political role play scenarios and participatory urban development projects invite visitors to help shape alternative concepts of reality.
Since 2018, Club Real has been working in Vienna, Berlin, Gelsenkirchen, Augsburg, Münster and Frankfurt —on the participatory political experiment and practice known as “Organism Democracy.” Equal political rights for all species— is the starting point of the practice, which is being developed in participatory theatre performances within the framework of individual ecosystems.
In 2025 Club Real initiated a more than human history project for Berlin. “City of Species” presents a multispecies narration of Berlin from the Ice ages to the present, as perceived by 32 different species.
Current members of Club Real are Mathia*s Lenz, Paz Ponce, Georg Reinhardt and Marianna Sonneck.
https://organismendemokratie.org/
This program is supported by the State Cultural Fund and the Czech-German Future Fund. Special thanks go to David Lindemann.
