When planes crashed into the Twin Towers on 11 September 2001, the notion of the USA as an untouchable world power also collapsed. What followed was the ‘war on terror’, surveillance and the erosion of fundamental rights. 25 years later, artists from the USA, Israel, Palestine, Austria, Germany and Brazil reflect on the consequences of 9/11 in a four-part night. Claudia Rankine and Bateira spotlight the devastation that shapes our present. Myassa Kraitt and Dilan Şengül focus on the mythical fortress Alamut, where the myths that would later be transfigured into apparent knowledge about terror were formed during the Middle Ages. Ozan Zakariya Keskinkılıç and Rodrigo Batista talk about queer jihadis and anti-Muslim racism. And Sivan Ben Yishai, Eyal Raz and Marie Bues have a dialogue that straddles Berlin, Jerusalem-Al-Quds and Vienna.

A joint production by the Vienna Festival (Wiener Festwochen) | Free Republic of Vienna and the Schauspielhaus Vienna