Two people with long dark hair and alien-colored skin lie close together in a fetal position, staring blankly. They lie in a kind of cocoon formed by roots spreading over them and to the sides.

Performance

Justin Talplacido Shoulder & the Future Folklore Collective

ANITO

Tickets:

28/14 (conq. 9 Euro, [k]-Karte ab 7 Euro)

Info

Recommended for ages 12 and up. Possible triggers or sensory stimuli: contains nudity, fog, loud music and sudden loud noises, abrupt changes in lighting, dim lighting, and lights that change color and intensity. No late admission.

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Saturday

10/25/25

7:00 PM

60Min

Insite Arts

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Back on the Kampnagel stage: After their acclaimed appearance with CARRION, Filipino-Australian artist Justin Talplacido Shoulder returns to Hamburg with a new, visually striking performance ritual. ANITO emerges from Sydney’s queer underground scene and blends animist mythology, queer embodiment, hand-crafted masks and electronic soundscapes into a collective ritual that interweaves beauty, resistance and transformation. Shoulder conjures the Anitos – ancestral and nature spirits from the Philippine cosmos – as hybrid beings of human, animal, plant and machine. ANITO unfolds a poetic world between ancestral memory and speculative futures.

»It’s a work that is as liberating as it is dark and menacing. The creative team have presented some delicate, radical fever dream«
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Arts Hub / Brendan Daynes

Directed, Performed and Co-conceived Justin Talplacido Shoulder Production Design Matthew Stegh and Justin Talplacido Shoulder Costume Design Matthew Stegh, Anthony Aitch, Justin Talplacido Shoulder Sound Design and Live Score Corin Ileto Performer and Co-generator Eugene Choi Mentor and Collaborator Victoria Hunt   Lighting / Vision Design Fausto Brusamolino Costume Design Technicians Brenda Lam, Anthony Aitch, Luna Aquatica Produced by Jason Cross at Insite Arts Special thanks to Marrugeku & Talking Bodies

The Hamburg performances are funded by the Claussen-Simon Foundation.
ANITO was supported by Restart Investment to Sustain and Expand (RISE) Fund - an Australian Government initiative, Create NSW and the Major Festivals Initiative of the Australian Government administered by Creative Australia, the funding and advisory body for arts in partnership with the Confederation of Australian International Arts Festivals Inc. on behalf of RISING, Sydney Festival and MONA FOMA.

Justin Talplacido Shoulder & the Future Folklore Collective

ANITO

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