Our world is falling apart. Everything is being canceled: Glaciers and certainty. The angel of history. The middle between right and left. Shades of gray. Colors.
Or perhaps: a rosy future. As if we were standing at a train station, all trains are canceled. And yet things are moving.
Waiting is life. Clocks and pendulums move at the pitch of „Spiel mir das Lied vom Tod“, small flames ignite, cause great flashes of thought and set movement free. In her new piece, Berlin performance artist Maren Strack shows four different states of waiting. Silent waiting turns into exploding fits of choreography. Delicate soundscapes meet grinding metallic sharpness. Waiting is annoying, it irritates to the point of rage. The higher the speed increases, the more pausing becomes an act of resistance. Perhaps even a saving straw: purpose-free time without meaning, in which reality turns out to be imagination, the floor a skirt, the present a memory. Dimensions open and close, the zipper becomes a borderline that holds life together. Maren Strack creates a choreographed, acoustic-kinetic readymade that dismantles visual habits, literally „de-suitcases“ them. Life is waiting, at best liberated time.
Performance: Maren Strack
Artistic direction: Johan Lorbeer
Sound direction, composition: Kerstin Lücker
Stage design: Peter Friedrich
Co-costume: Molly Raak
Lighting design: Fabian Bleisch
Photography: Uwe Arens
Production dramaturgy: Mario Stumpfe
Duration: 50 min.
Supported with funds from the Ministry of Science, Research and Culture of the State of Brandenburg.