Holiday season is over. Or, almost, as some of my friends have gone for last city trips, and escapes to beaches. Being on the threshold of summer season to fall season, I have to think about a trip to Italy that I did two-and-a-half years ago. In the spring of 2022, I had the chance … Continue reading Giambattista Tiepolo: Rachel Hiding the Idols from Laban
What are the ingredients when it comes to making art? Are there any basic materials and recipes? I had the chance to see, two weekends ago, in the frame of the so-called Rundgang, an annual exhibition of students' works at Offenbach’s University for Art and Design (HfG), a small but nevertheless striking work by Caroline … Continue reading Caroline Creutzburg: To poach an egg
The same day that the Donetsk Academic Regional Drama Theatre in Mariupol is bombed out in the Russia-Ukraine war, the festival opening of Tanzplattform Deutschland is happening: It is March 16, 2022. It is an incongruous coincidence, and the reality of the warfare in Europe is palpable throughout the festival days. (I finish writing this … Continue reading Moritz Ostruschnjak: TANZANWEISUNGEN (it won’t be like this forever)
I have the impression that I stumbled into this new year of 2022 because I got infected with Covid-19 during the holidays, and I assume that it was the Omicron variant. The virus somehow struck me down, and even though I showed no life-threatening symptoms, I got extremely tired, lost all sense of concentration, and … Continue reading Corona Dreaming
Let's talk about dreaming. Last year I wrote about ScriptedReality, a group of theatre and performance makers in Frankfurt. In all of their projects, they are interested in how game mechanics, writing methods, and performance tactics can be interlaced with Fine Arts and theatre. In their artistic output, they are, as my colleague Georg Döcker … Continue reading Mark Diaz Truman / Avery Alder: The Deep Forest
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