"Wood Wood Wood – Nothing’s Ever Good" imagines the trees of the Białowieża Forest, on the border of Poland and Belarus, as phonograph records: an archive of suppressed stories. The eerie undercurrent to the romantic tale of the forest idyll.

Voices of the displaced, of animals, and of scientists rise up from past and present. The performers trace these echoes and recount countless borderlines and occupations, the violence inflicted on Jews and partisans during the German occupation, the hunts for both animals and humans, as well as today’s realities at this outer edge of Europe.

At the center: a DJ at their decks, looping pasts and presents; a resonant archive speaking of ideologies, of mechanisms of exclusion, of continuities of violence – and of the forest’s enduring role as a place of refuge for plants, animals, and people alike.

• Concept & direction: Christiane Huber
• Team: Magda Kupryjanowicz & Sarah Israel (concept & dramaturgy, text), Robert Keil (stage design), Pascale Martin (costume design), Dana von Suffrin (text), Tatsiana Zamirovskaya (text), Małgorzata Biela, Amie Georgson Jammeh, Maria Hafner, Aleksandra Matlingiewicz (performance), Marcin Lenarczyk (sound), Pola Dobler (composition & choral arrangement), Rainer Ludwig (lighting design), Rat & Tat Kulturbüro (artistic production management), Simone Lutz (PR), Eunjin Yoo (artistic assistant), Sven Zellner (photos & documentation), Moritz Appich (graphic design), Florian Limmer (lighting technician), Nicholas Brown (sound technician).
• A production by Christiane Huber in co-production with the Münchner Kammerspiele.

Christiane Huber

is an artist, performer, and director. She studied psychology in Munich and fine arts/sound art at Bard College in New York. Her practice unfolds across theater, performance, sound, installation, and film, often weaving sociopolitical questions into artistic forms. Her work grows out of deep research, evolving into artistic translations and into distinct bodies of work. Some begin with local histories and branch outward, forging regional and international connections.

Her current projects turn to borders, war, violence, transgenerational trauma, and above all, to the silences and omissions within their narratives. Since 2018, she has been creating an oral history archive on forced agricultural labor under National Socialism. More recently, her research has taken her into the Białowieża National Park and into a collaboration with Polish colleagues she had various visits and conversations along the Polish-Belarusian border.

More about the artist: www.christianehuber.net.

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