Nominated for nachtkritik-Theatertreffen 2025
No More! White Money is a collective participatory performance about money, power and art. White Money flows from European funding institutions to the rest of the world. It dictates aesthetics, access and mobility for artists within and beyond Europe. Six artists from India, Nigeria, Russia, the Netherlands and Germany follow its flow and uncover the neo-colonial structure of contemporary arts funding. How do we sell ourselves, our ideas and adapt our aesthetics to the discourse decided by a random jury or by the latest director of an institution? How do we co-create from a place of acknowledging our unequal positions in the world and our complicity with white money? In No More! White Money we enter the playing field and seek to invent new rules of the game — that dismantle the flow of money, with you, the audience. It is time to say NO. The temperature on stage is dipping, the energy bills are rising, the algorithms are deepening divides and we have to redistribute our wealth now, before it’s too late. Are you ready to say goodbye to (your) white money?
Concept, performance: Aderemi Adegbite, Anuja Ghosalkar, Konradin Kunze, Ada Mukhina, Sophia Stepf, Abhishek Thapar
Technical direction Berlin: Susana Alonso Technician Netherlands: Ester Bernart Production management Berlin: Marit Buchmeier, Lisanne Grotz / xplus3 Produktionsbüro Energy policy consultant: Mathias Drücker Creative producer Netherlands: Job Rietvelt Production management Netherlands: Jueliette Talakua Artistic collaboration Berlin: Maja Zagórska Photos: Paul Holdsworth
A production by Flinn Works & Afra Tafri Creations.
In collaboration with Drama Queen, Tutuola institute and Ada Mukhina.
Funded by Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion, Fonds Darstellende Künste with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media within the program NEUSTART KULTUR. Supported by the Performing Arts Fund NL. With kind support of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. Co-production partners: Sophiensæle, Grand Theatre Groningen, Nirdigantha, Oerol Festival, City Residency Arnhem.
Premiere – November 6, 2024, Sophiensaele (Berlin, Germany). Tour – Grand Theater (Groningen), Theater a/d Rijn (Arnhem), and Frascati (Amsterdam).
Publications
Die Abgründe der Kulturförderung: “No More! White Money” (DE). Georg Kasch about the premiere of the collective performance at Sophiensaele in Berlin. Berliner Morgenpost. November 7, 2024.
Fundraising for the Roof: ‘No! More White Money’ at Sophiensaele (ENG) Written by Sumugan Sivanesan. Berlin Artlink. Nov. 26, 2024