LAND WITHOUT WORDS by Dea Loher
‘It is, I cannot describe it any differently, a pointlessness which also enters words and leaves them without meaning. Something natural gets destroyed. The normal process, the safety, of putting my feelings and experiences into words is broken.
Dea Loher/speech to the awarding of the Bertolt Brecht Award, 2006
When language is not enough anymore to put experiences into words, when art has reached its limits – and then? After her travels through the war marked Afghanistan in 2005, the dramatist Dea Loher describes that state: ‘It is, I cannot describe it any differently, a pointlessness which also enters words and leaves them without meaning.’ The artist collective missingdots shows an interdisciplinary performance over the loss of naturalness.
Premiere: 20.02.2020 | HELLERAU European Centre of the Arts
Acting: Julia Amme
Fine arts: Svea Duwe
Dance: Kristin Mente
Choreography: Nora Schott
Direction: Nora Otte
Light design: Martin Mulik
Photos: René Zieger
Sponsors:
Kulturstiftung des Freistaates Sachsen
Amt für Kultur und Denkmalschutz Dresden
Collaboration partner:
HELLERAU European Centre for the Arts