The project started in March , when Germany entered its first lockdown. Some advertisements are wishes for a better world; others are unfunny jokes from the darkest part of my soul!
Together, they are my corona-diary, a personal documentation of these times from the perspective of an international student in Germany. Together with Sonar Quartett countless mythological, literary, etymological, anatomical and geographical entanglements of Atlas were explored.
In their lectures, Claudia Splitt and Florian Feigl tell of remote volcanic islands and rare birds, of Greek gods, ancient historians and postmodern encyclopedias, referring to anecdotes and geographical descriptions. Insights to scores and text materials, video excerpts and tape recordings, as well as stagings of concerts and text performances.
The Ensemble S and artist Kanade Hamawaki are going to present a film "frag mich 2 mal" ask me twice and bring art and new music out of their closed contexts: critical discussions with everyday life collide with balloon performances and screeching woodwinds. The question of the relationship between one's own and other worlds is posed and encouraged to speculate about life and death. Dust: work or aesthetics? Dust is everywhere, autonomous — as gray dust mice or in smallest particles — it floats through our lives.
As the color of all colors, it reveals itself to be a medium, material or disturbance — and fills vacuum cleaner bag after vacuum cleaner bag. A search for the beauty of dust, for form and content, life and death, wage labor and gender, magic and engineering. During the Corona pandemic, something strange is happening in a theatre somewhere in Germany: the empty auditorium is hitting puberty.
