Ruhige Wolke refers to the waste heat from the cooling tower – the residual energy that can no longer be utilized by the system and drifts away. Jingyun Li grew up as the child of power plant workers in the settlement surrounding the Weihe coal-fired power plant in China. In this performance, the theater artist uses autofiction to explore her own biography and, through poetic language, reflects on processes of connection and alienation within traumas passed down across generations. 

The work was created as a work-in-progress as part of the programme Zu Gast bei Urbane Künste Ruhr.

Organised by Urbane Künste Ruhr. Local Support: STADT_RAUM