A peaceful model housing estate becomes the sterile backdrop for a walk-in installation about the (un)narratability of war as an experience and the place for it in this society.
We encounter war in the news as an everyday fact of horror, as a number of destruction and deaths. We encounter war in blockbusters as a heroic epic or as a children's game with plastic weapons. As a story of the past. As neighbors who have fled. In its real tangibility, however, it is mainly characterized by its absence in our everyday lives. Although many people in Germany have experienced war, it often remains unspeakable and invisible. The experiences are too traumatic, too absurd to comprehend, and talking about them is too commonplace.
There is a gap between our images and the real experience of war. A gap between deafening noise and silence. Between speechlessness and the collapse of everyday life. Where is there room for something for which a language must first be found? How can we talk about war? How can we talk about it? - As a soldier, a contemporary witness, a refugee? How do we listen? What place do real experiences of war and the invisible consequences have in our society today?
In SOMEWHERE THERE'S WAR, a peaceful model housing estate in Schkeuditz becomes the bourgeois, everyday backdrop for a walk-in, performative audio installation. Three groups will each enter a location on the estate for 30 minutes in rotation in a trilogy without beginning or end, allowing the absurdity of the incomprehensible to flare up in moments.
Meeting point: LOFFT - DAS THEATER
The performances take place in the UNGER-Park show house exhibition (Döbichauer Str. 13, 04435 Schkeuditz).
A free shuttle bus will take the audience from LOFFT - DAS THEATER to the performance and back. The times given are the departure times from LOFFT, please arrive in good time.
From the age of 16. In German language.
The original sounds of the project come from interviews with various people who live in Germany and have experienced war. Many thanks for the open and trusting conversations.
Acoustic stimuli: Loud and sudden noises are used in the piece.
Content note: There are real descriptions of violence, armed conflicts and death in the performance.
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Price information:
Premiere Regular: 16,- € Premiere Reduced: 11,- € Premiere Leipzig-Pass: 8,- € Regular: 13,- € Reduced: 9,- € Leipzig-Pass: 6,50 € Solo price: 20,- €