An artist is always searching for meaning. His/her art becomes the medium of this search, allowing him/her to engage with the world around him/her. Today's times seem so absurd that this search often seems futile: the future is at least uncertain or unknown.

The situations within the art scene also make us think: the financial situation of many artists, the large gap between the freelance scene and the large institutions, the situation and difficulties of freelance (single) mothers, or the fact that the scenes that are actually close in their sound or art aesthetics and thus appeal to a similar audience (e.g. freely improvised music, contemporary music, performance art, contemporary jazz) are still organized strictly separately, and much more.

The word “absurdity” seems to us to be a very appropriate word in connection with these topics. Although, or perhaps precisely because of this, we have titled our latest project this way. Although we do not address (world) political topics on stage, these are precisely the topics that inspired us to create this project.

A project about absurdity, an attempt to put oneself in the shoes of our ultra-capitalist society, which mostly looks away. But absurdity is also one of the weapons of humor. A remedy for not sinking into melancholy when dealing with dark topics.

In our program we bring pieces with absurd elements, i.e. sounds or performative elements, to the stage, which at first seem bizarre, unusual or even nonsensical.

Artists

Duo Klexs

Léa Legros-Pontal

Silke Strahl

&

Felix Nussbaumer