Family Feeling Factory

Family Feeling Factory is a participatory performance imagining families of the future, created with artist Juliane Meckert in collaboration with 36 Humboldting! teens.

Set in the year 3020, families no longer live on a single planet. Instead, they exist across two worlds: a golden world filled with women and cats, and a landscape of singing forests and orchards. Memories appear as light. Communication happens through gesture, vibration, and thought.

Through movement, music, text, and performative sequences, audiences are invited into this speculative future and asked to contribute their own memories, perspectives, and experiences. Together with the young people, audiences will explore collective utopias and rethink family as a feeling, a construction, and a living structure.

Family Feeling Factory treats family as a network of many voices, times, and worlds. The performance is a mirror and a laboratory for the future, revealing what connects us, what challenges us, and what we pass on.

The World Premiere of Family Feeling Factory presented by Humboldt Forum in Berlin, Germany on January 24, 2026 was:

Developed and Directed by Juliane Meckert and Mathias Baresel (aka Ted Brasko) in collaboration with the Humboldting! youth from Thomas Mann Gymnasium.