In »None of my Business«, Filet + Friends, in collaboration with activists, explore climate (in)justice: the gap between responsibility for climate change and its effects on those who have contributed the least. The starting point is the uprising of 600 women in the Niger Delta—one of Africa’s most oil-rich yet heavily exploited regions. For ten days, they occupied the offices of Shell and Chevron, unarmed but with a powerful threat: to expose their bare buttocks to those in power. A deeply rooted act of spiritual cursing and public shaming in Nigeria. In a capitalist world dominated by fossil fuels, profit-driven business, and enduring colonial inequalities, climate justice is not only an ecological issue but above all a political and social one. Eight performers investigate what resistance in this world system can feel like: personally, politically, and physically. With autobiographical texts, choreographic elements, and live music on the cajón, the performers move together within a shared field of tension on stage.
Filet was founded in 2024 by Flora Udochi Egbonu, Lena Kolle, and Johanna Schwaiger. In their piece developments, they engage with themes that are at once personal, political, and universal. For an intersectional perspective, in None of my Business they collaborate with artists whom they know from earlier projects.
