Final Master Project – Diane Gemsch

The Anthropic Landscape – Life Beyond the Surface

The Anthropic Principle suggests that the universe is shaped by the presence of those who observe it. In this laboratory performance, grief itself becomes a landscape—one that exists only because we move through it.

Exploring the corporeal, earthbound aspects of human existence, this work asks how we are shaped by the world and the traces we leave behind. Rooted in a personal journey of death, breathing, and becoming, The Anthropic Landscape navigates the threshold between life and what comes after, absence and presence, and how memory reshapes what we call home.

Performances: 3 & 4 April 2025 20h

Venue: ZHDK Toni Areal 3.C06 InszenatorikRaum

CREDITS

Project conceived by
Diane Gemsch

Co-directed by
Tomer Zirkilevich

Assisted by
Victor Mendes

Performed by
Neil Höhener, Mara Natterer, Diane Gemsch

Music by
Emmanuel Michaud & Linda Vogel

Live-light creation
Simon Schwarz

Light concept
Ivalina Yapova

Supported by the artistry of
Hans-Jakob Mühletahler, Haim Abergel, Lea Bühler, Leonora Christina Gaitanou

Photos by
Jürg Lauber

dedicated to
Reto Gemsch