Melanie Jame Wolf: Finite Jest
In the organizer's words:
Performance Showing
As part of SOLO - Festival for artistic solo efforts
About the event:
Melanie Jame Wolf is working on a new solo piece about comedy, tragedy and death. With "Finite Jest" she invites you to a work-in-progress showing. It is about the anatomy of the joke. The joke is that we all die. Can we laugh about it? Together? In a theater? Melanie Jame Wolf suspects that we probably have to. She explores stand-up comedy as a form. In stand-up it is said that if a joke fails, the comedian has died on stage - stand up, drop dead.
"Finite Jest" develops ideas from Wolf's experimental essay "The Mean Well", which appeared in Delfi Magazine in 2024. Based on the artist's experience with breast cancer, the essay explores how the lack of social scripts for dealing with death and illness can lead to a failure of cohesion and (material) care. Does our desire to be "a good person" sometimes originate in a false attitude and ironically get in the way of being truly useful in emergency situations?
"Finite Jest" is a companion piece to Wolf's solo work "Mira Fuchs" from 2015.
About the artist:
Melanie Jame Wolf produces artistic works, performances and texts about power, persona and the phenomenon of "show business": the borderline, the convincing, the deceptive, the staged and the performative in the political, the theatrical and the everyday. Her work explores the radical vulnerability of the live moment and the body as a recalcitrant political enigma. These investigations are expressed through stylized aesthetics, uncanny shape-shifting and a skillful play with language. Her work has been widely exhibited in Germany and internationally.
savage-amusement.com
Instagram @melanie.jame.wolf
Information on accessibility:
Performance in German spoken language.
Duration: 40 minutes without intermission.
All public areas of the Schwankhalle are accessible at ground level and without steps.
There are three different toilets: a barrier-free toilet that can also be used by wheelchair users, a toilet with 3 toilet cubicles and a toilet with urinals and a toilet cubicle.
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