loose ends …

A utopian and a dystopian space, an avant-garde festival theatre and a punitive apparatus that can be described with Foucault, upper world and underworld - what connects the two places? How can the myth of Eurydice disappearing in Hades be read in the field of tension between guilt, (female) victimhood and (male) perpetration, isolation and inability to communicate, which is created by Helmut Oehring's work? And can the underworld even become a space of its own for Eurydice in the sense of Virginia Woolf, where her voice is allowed to resound for the first time?

Dramaturgy students from HMT Leipzig launch this page as a satellite that circles around the themes laid out in Oehring's work and thus enables additional and different perspectives on them. The project's diverse range of themes is understood as a stimulus and supplemented by the students' own impulses; Oehring's audiovisual polyphony finds its counterpart in the many-voiced examination of him. The contributions are not subject to any principle of order and allow materials to communicate through references in order to create ever new links. "Loose ends..." does not follow a chronology and invites you to start at different points, jump through the contributions and discover unexpected interactions.

By alternating auditory with visual contributions, by having spoken poems follow sign videos or short texts, offers are made to both deaf and hearing people: the gap between seeing and hearing is not to be denied, but at the same time the attempt is made to build bridges between both worlds.

Click here for the collection of materials.