Muttikan

Neither kinky parties nor Beyoncé have managed to break through the hard core of the millennia-old Roman Catholic Church tradition. A tradition that is performatively legitimised by the constant execution of rituals. A tradition that systematically excludes women and queers, among others. Now we say: Enough with the Vatican – it is time to launch the Muttikan.

MUTTIKAN appropriates of the Roman Catholic mass as a format and develops a secular counter-model to it. Marco Merenda, Linda Lou Dierich-Matzke and Christopher Ramm guide the audience – the children of the Muttikan – through experiences that attribute new meanings to the procedures and actions of the mass. Roman Catholic rituals and orders of movement are translated on three different levels: ritual-symbolic, content-related and spatial-choreographic.