Heiner Goebbels’ Stifters Dinge is a performance without people, a performance that takes place in a strange, uncanny nowhere. It is a performance where, in the ‘absence’ of human actors, machines themselves make rain, fog and mist, and appear to have a nostalgia for the weather, wanting to bring it inside, to infold themselves in the elemental. Stifters Dinge, then, is a performance about the future of weather, a future which is simultaneously here and yet always still to come. In his 30 minute lecture in the Andrew Stewart Cinema , followed by discussion, Carl Lavery will reflect on and investigate what the performance means for us today with respect to global warming and climate change. There is no need to have seen the performance in advance.
