“Do The Right Thing” is an examination of the entanglements of action (“DO”), ethics (“THE RIGHT”) and materiality (“THING”). Juxtaposing the title of Spike Lee’s film from 1989 with the history of the Bauhaus school, the piece questions whether theater can live up to the often self-imposed demand to do “the right thing”. Starting from the primary colours red, yellow and blue and the basic geometric forms of circle, square and triangle, “Do the Right Thing” converts the traditional modernist palette into bright neon colours of warning signs and security notices. The Bauhaus icon Oskar Schlemmer once asked: “Humans and space each have different laws of order. Whose shall prevail?” The performance here goes beyond the pure confrontation of space and humans, allowing for an empathic and colourful revision of the role humans play in dominating a material, playful world rich with objects and objections.
2018: Premiere / HAU Hebbel am Ufer
2020: online iteration for FACT Magazine
