EXIT
Antonia Baehr
engl.
“EXIT” is the performance of the hour. It gains new relevance against the backdrop of current politics. Antonia Baehr dedicates this work from 2018 to an ever-present, but mostly overlooked phenomenon of western theatre buildings: the obligatory illuminated emergency exit signs. She makes them the stars of her lecture performance. “EXIT” takes us into a sphere between light and dark, where the green glow confronts us with the supposedly fixed oppositions of inside and outside, safety and danger or body and image. It is a dream journey through the things that theatre tries to repress and the phantasm of the Western image of humanity it has helped to create.
Based on audio messages by Lindy Annis, Frédéric Bigot, Frieder Butzmann, Carola Caggiano, Mette Edvardsen, Silvia Fanti, Neo Hülcker, André Lepecki, JMK Nicholas, Stefan Pente, Anne Quirynen, Michael Schlund, Anna Wagner and an interview with Susanne Görres.
Concept & performance: Antonia Baehr (@make_up_productions_) / Technical direction & sound design: Carola Caggiano (@carola.caggiano) / Dramaturgy: Lindy Annis / Dramaturgical advice: Bettina Knaup, Mayte Zimmermann / Research: Manon Haase, Laura Schilling, Sarah Tehranian / Production assistance: Nele Beinborn / Organisation: Alexandra Wellensiek (@awellensiek) / Thanks to: Cris Blanco, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Susanne Görres & team HAU Hebbel am Ufer, Eva Meyer-Keller, Constanze Schellow, Anna Wagner and team Künstlerhaus Mousonturm
More info here and on HAU’s website.
Photo: Elodie Grethen