PHI

About the makers

Caroline Geiser (1996) is a Swiss-Colombian theatre director set to graduate this year from the corresponding program at the AHK. During her studies, she has been searching for a bridge between the analytical and the intuitive, the metaphysical and the embodied in an attempt to understand her own fragmentation. She uses auto-theory to metabolize, analytical philosophy to dissect and theatre to bind us to the world we navigate. 

Caroline’s artistic practice is grounded in research and philosophical inquiry, yet it is brought to life through highly intuitive and collaborative rehearsal processes.

It explores the absurdity of human existence, not through conventional narrative or character development, but by confronting the audience directly with layered, sensorial experiences. Rather than asking the audience to (always) empathize with characters, her work creates a charged space between stage and spectator, where language—spoken, visual, musical, or physical—is both examined and dismantled. 

Menno Meijners (1992) graduates from the scenography department of the Academy of Theatre and Dance in Amsterdam. As a spatial designer Menno dares to confront you. With yourself or with the social customs around us. His work creates spaces that cannot be missed. But will never push it on to you. There is often a subtle play with absurdity and irony. And designs are mostly conceptual, abstract and aesthetic. In his studies he made work exploring video, installation art and room filling scenography. In the last two years he made designs only with borrowed or waste material.

Before, Menno studied in fields as architecture, art, but also in public administration. Creating new combinations is something he sees as his role as a designer. Fascinated by change he aspires to become a changemaker, ready for complex questions. All to be possibly translated in aesthetic, bold spatial designs that seduces an audience to think differently.