Carbon Negative

CO₂ Performance

Are you ashamed of flying? Do you have complexes about the environment? Do you want to reduce your carbon footprint, but you don't know how? Then come to Carbon Negative! This performance is not only climate-neutral, but climate-positive. Your visit will actively contribute to improving our carbon footprint because we will overcompensate our harmful emissions.

Flinn Works presents innovative ideas and certified options from the CO₂ compensation lab: including classic methods, such as reforestation and solar stove projects, but also new approaches, such as enhanced rock weathering, algae cultivation, direct air capture and storage and crypto coins based on AI-controlled monitoring of the Amazon.

The clock is ticking. Our climate budget is almost exhausted. We can no longer afford to wait for perfect solutions or systemic change. Perhaps the 1.5 degree target would still be achievable if we use smart technologies on a larger scale and made them more marketable? Or do such environmental projects ultimately just comprise greenwashing and green colonialism?

Join in with the thinking, the decision-making! For a better future!

A cross between lab, interaction and audiovisual performance, Carbon Negative opens a space for reflection, stimulation and possibilities for action.

A Flinn Works production

Created by Susana Alonso (Light Design), Lea Dietrich (Stage & Costume Design), Konradin Kunze (Performance & Artistic Direction), Andi Otto (Composition & Performance), Grischa Schwiegk (CO2 balancing), Sophia Stepf (Artistic Direction), Maja Zagórska (Artistic Collaboration & Social Media), Marit Buchmeier & Lisanne Grotz / xplus3 Produktionsbüro (Production Management) Interviews with Jutta Kill & Mordecai Ogada (experts)

Funded by Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion of the State of Berlin; Fonds Darstellende Künste with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media; Hessian Ministry of Science and Research, Art and Culture; Cultural Office of the City of Kassel; Gerhard Fieseler Foundation

Events

Sophiensæle Berlin: June 6 (Premiere) - 9, 2025 
Dock 4 Kassel: September 25 - 27, 2025
Lichthof Theater Hamburg: October 17 - 18, 2025 20:15
Künstler*innenhaus Mousonturm Frankfurt: November 17, 2025 19:00

English version:
English Theatre Berlin: August 27 + 28, 2026, 20:00;  August 29, 2026, 18:00
Festival delle colline Torinesi: October 16, 2026, 19:00; October 17, 2026, 17:00

Press

Flinn Works do not turn this topic into educational theater, but work with visual elements, electronic music, videos – and humor. The stage is set up like a laboratory where algae and small balls of moss are cultivated and then torched. (...) This entertaining, enlightening, but also activist documentary theater with clear intentions ends up being funnier and more constructive than one would expect.

rbb24

The performance demonstrates how the idea of buying a carbon credit to plant trees in Kenya in order to continue flying guilt-free is both climate colonialism and a farce.

REDD-Monitor