Alchemy of history – Echos einer liminalen Reise im Amazonasgebiet
- https://www.uni-giessen.de/de/fbz/fb05/atw/veranstaltungen/2025/alchemyofhistory
- Alchemy of history – Echos einer liminalen Reise im Amazonasgebiet
- 2026-07-10T19:00:00+02:00
- 2026-07-10T20:00:00+02:00
10.07.2026 von 19:00 bis 20:00 (Europe/Berlin / UTC200)
10.07.2026 von 19:00 bis 20:00
11.07.2026 von 19:00 bis 20:00
Theaterlabor of the JLU: Bismarckstraße 24A, 35390 Gießen
Concept and performance: Diana De Fex Dramaturgy: Nina DeLudemann, Maria Tsitroudi, kemelo nozipho sehlapelo Light design: Hyunseo Choi Sound design: Till Bürgin Special thanks to Alma Quintana, Bojana Kunst, Mikosh Loutsenko, Olga Popova
EN: The Amazon is a territory onto which all kinds of desires and imaginaries are projected: as a land of inexhaustible fertility and wealth open to endless extraction; savage and virginal, in need of culture and civilization; magical and mythological; shadowy, dangerous, and devouring. How can we encounter this territory without getting lost in these projections? How can we sense the cultural and historical layers that weave together personal, collective, and ancestral memory? How is unfathomable loss shaped and reconciled?
This is an account of a journey within many journeys, and many journeys within a journey.
Halfway between introspection and perception, I listen to the voice of the river—which is the forest’s heartbeat, which is the taste of the sun’s warmth on the tip of my tongue, which is what frogs croak when I listen more than what I hear, which is what the rain smells like when I see more than what I see, which is what birds teach when we sing the ancestral thought that travels.
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