Work in progress Präsentation
Daniel Kötter/Ikbal Lubys

Air Study

Expanded Cinema and Concert

In collaboration with HONF Yogyakarta and Ethnictro Yogyakarta
Music, Performance – Ikbal Lubys
Film – Daniel Kötter
Dramaturgy – Anna Ptak
Set Design – Natalia Orendain
Production Manager – Beatrix Joyce

A production by Kötter/Israel/Limberg GbR in co-production with Theater im Pumpenhaus Münster. Funded by the Kunststiftung NRW and the Kulturstiftung des Freistaates Sachsen. With the kind support of ZiMMT Leipzig

We all breathe. The recent pandemic only exacerbated the realisation that air, as the ultimate commons, is at stake. Daniel Kötter’s immersive 360° film Air Study transports the Leipzig audience to the places where our planet breathes and gasps. On the volcanic island of Java, we accompany a group of Indonesian artists, lost in a landscape caught between mining disasters and natural mud volcanoes. As ghostly companions on their journey, we share their search for what we cannot see, and for what connects us all. Between geological depths and atmospheric heights, in Ikbal Luby’s bubbling concert installation we listen to the gas and the spectres, the winds and the data streams: Climate change begins within our own bodies and ends in our imagination of what is supposedly far away – a celestial ghost story.

Air Study continues the collaboration between the German documentary filmmaker Daniel Kötter and the Indonesian instrument maker and musician Ikbal Luby. Their previous works staged at Schauspiel Leipzig include Gold & Coal (2019) and Roden (Politik im Freien Theater 2025). Air Study is the first project in a new series on the theme of ‘aerosphere’.

27. and 28.09.2026