"A Shared Stage of Contingent Production"

On March 13, Ian White, participant of the Living Archive project, und Johannes Paul Raether and Johannes Paul Raether turn to the relationship between live performance and moving image at HAU1. Two performances have emerged from the artists' films in the Arsenal collection that dissect the theater space along the places proscenium, auditorium and stage. Johannes Paul Raether's witch Protektorama uses the stage as a mobile phone-television studio and produces a video of her ritual to save the world. Using Marx, Yvonne Rainer, Riki Kalbe, Maya Deren, the Divine Horsemen of Voodoo and Kinder eggs, she will prove to people how obsessed they are with the abstract principles of capitalism. In the auditorium, films by Karola Schlegelmilch, Klaus Telscher, Hellmuth Costard, Peter Weiss and Robyn Brentano / Andrew Horn that are connected to Walter Benjamin's notion about the origins of German tragic drama will be interspersed by performative activity by Ian White. A production of images that are not there but here.