• Thu 12 07 2018 •
Meine Wunschdomain - Oracle
19:00
Academyspace, Herwarthstraße 3, 50672 Köln
The Performance is part of WILD THINGS - sounds and narratives
The two artists Knut Schultz and Julia Nietzsche are the performance duo Meine Wunschdomain. They founded their agency for applied performance art in 2013. In keeping with the saying “sharing is caring,” with this agency Knut and Julia act as an oracle and share with their audience successful and wonderful artistic strategies for everyday use. They draw on strategies from their own theatre and performance work and also feature other artists in their oracle sessions. Chance plays a part in their work (also an artistic strategy as popular as it is challenging) – though invariably they notice that it really doesn’t exist, since by the end of the visit everyone always receives the right answer…
Engaging their diverse spectrum of interests and experience mixed with media-based magic, Wunschdomain cultivates the proper context in which to generate concrete and optimistic strategies for resistance and perseverance. The performance oracle sessions are focussed on radical narratives and visions of a future that is worth living (and enjoying) by all, as well the unequivocal wish to stand FOR something. Julia and Knut are staunch in their belief that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts and they love the various interpretations of this idea. Their previous oracle sessions each involved pragmatic works with a heightened assertion of reality, and thus a reliance on theater. They also believe that the power of narratives can only be accessed by sharing them. This approach leads to another understanding of art that Wunschdomain fosters and calls for, so that a theatre that sees itself as a productive communicative service nevertheless maintains its claims to illusion. As regards content, it is important to not follow the trend of critical recountings of the current state of affairs but rather dare to replace prevalent dystopian scenarios with utopian moments and images.
The number of participants is limited, please register under: youthacademyatacademycologne.org