This event will take place outdoors. Please dress warmly!
“Nothing can be said about the isolation of man without other people.”
Together with Marsha Ginsberg and actor Jesse Lenat, Katharina Schmitt will present an investigatory performance installation based on her play SAM. SAM is inspired by Tehching Hsieh’s performance Cage Piece from 1978/79, in which Hsieh locked himself in a cage in his studio for the duration of one year. He was not allowed to talk, to read, to write, or to listen to radio or watch TV. A lawyer watched over the process and made sure Hsieh never left the cage. A friend came daily to bring food and take a single photograph of the performer, visitors were allowed to come to the studio for one afternoon every three weeks.
SAM uses the basic situation of Hsieh’s Cage Piece as a starting point for a performance; looking at the role and the work of the actor, it questions the relationship between performer, the audience and the audience’s expectations.
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