Technostalgia

Welcome to Mars. You take a walk among the remains of an abandoned human colony. The residents who once settled here have disappeared without a trace. Strolling through the Pompeii of the future, you hear a soundtrack of stories, music, conversations and live ambient sounds, led by a guide who has been left behind there.

Technostalgia takes you into the future. Mankind has left Earth and attempted to settle on Mars. But life on Mars appears much more hostile than imagined and everyone gets chronic nostalgia for Earth. Again man searches for a new place. Somewhere in infinity there must be a place where everything is good and beautiful?

A last servant left behind welcomes us. Together we walk through the remains of an abandoned world. He looks back with us at the fruitless attempts of man to shape a new world here. We are introduced to former Mars residents; a demented, pregnant young woman, a father whose child wants to play outside, a biologist with the task of growing edible food and a race-optimistic man. Through headphones we hear their stories, fragments of dialogues from the past, live ambient sounds and music, while we wander through the abandoned landscape.

In co-production with Strijbos & Van Rijswijk, the Ulrike Quade Company went on an archaeological discovery tour in Technostalgia in the dune landscape of Terschelling during Oerol, 14 to 23 June 2019.

Under the direction of Ulrike Quade, with music by composer duo Strijbos & Van Rijswijk, text by filmwriter Marcel Roijaards and the voice of actor Rick Paul van Mulligen, Technostalgia becomes an audio tour that takes you through the deserted landscape of Mars.