The work of scenographer and director Dominic Huber born in opens new zones of the performative. His preferred sites are spaces that not only can be seen by the audience, but entered and experienced by individuals or entire groups. Very much in the sense of augmented reality, they work on expanding experiences of the senses, artistically modifying, activating, and manipulating actual spaces and situations.
As a result, the audience actively engages with and explores surprising characteristics of their surroundings. After studying architecture at the ETH Zurich Dominic Huber teamed up with light designer Christa Wenger and founded the company blendwerk GmbH. Other installations over the years include works for the German bpb, at the newly opened Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich and for the youth festival Blickfelder in Zurich.
Referring to his narrative theatre spaces he created a complete set up of a Mombasa Beauty Salon in the museum hall. From he developed his own work as a stage designer for independent productions and theatres in Germany and Switzerland like Gessnerallee in Zurich, Theater Basel, Aachen Theatre, Theatre de Vidy- Lausanne, Sophiensaele Berlin, MΓΌnchner Kammerspiele and the Schauspielhaus Zurich.
At that time he worked among others with Simone Aughterlony, Davis Freeman, Susanne-Marie Wrage, Sandra Strunz, Phil Hayes and Peter Licht. In Zurich he designed a series of theater installation projects together with Bernhard Mikeska mikeska: plus:blendwerk like "Rashomon: TRUTH LIES NEXT DOOR", "MARIENBAD :: coming soon" and at Schauspiel Frankfurt "Je t'aime::Je t'aime "and" Making Of :: Marilyn ".
With Rimini Protokoll Dominic Huber developed the scenographic multiplayer-installation "Situation Rooms" in which the audience enters the subjective perspective of protagonists in a world of weapons using Ipads and headphones in a labyrinth-like scenography. Just recently Dominic Huber premiered "Nachlass" together with Stefan Kaegi - an installation with eight portraits of people who are close to their passing talking about their legacy.
