Rituals of grief – no society can make do without them. They define the community, offer support and celebrate death as a part of life – many of them have been forgotten. Death has become a private failure or a medical mistake. Showing sadness and pain openly threatens routine productivity. EXERCISE IN MOURNING commemorates 60 hours of an emergency state, a collective practice in grief – intense, exhausting, restless, radical. The empty hall will become a cathedral of parting for those who have never found a ritual. It is a house of common loneliness in which you can lose yourself. Somewhere between warmed-up lasagna, Rumanian mourners, neon lights at the dissecting table, booming basses, love in war, the lost child, the father who was never found and the rising sun.
MARIA MAGDALENA LUDEWIG & GUESTS: ÜBUNG IN TRAUER - EXERCISE IN MOURNING1 from Kampnagel on Vimeo. Videos: Stylianos Tsatsos
Funded by Hamburgische Kulturstiftung and Kulturbehörde Hamburg.
Die Spielzeiteröffnung OPENHAUS wurde gefördert von der Rudolf-Augstein-Stiftung und der Europäischen Union / Creative Europe im Rahmen von Imagine 2020 | Art and Climate Change
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