
RITUAL ASSOCIATION & TALK: BYE BYE BEGINNING. WITH ANNA ZETT AND GUESTS
As part of her research residency, Anna Zett has been working with archive materials of the galerie weisser Elefant since September. The artist is focusing on the last years of the GDR, when the gallery was an important place for performance, installation and artistic experimentation. With reference to the municipal gallery’s institutional restart under the name Kunst Raum Mitte, Zett raises the question of transgenerational handover of experience: “Where to put it, where does it come from? In the middle, no origin in sight. Beginning – middle – end – beginning. What happened? The ritual doesn’t repeat itself. Bye bye is gathering in the present.”
At the end of her research, Anna Zett invites a few actors of the years 1987–1990 onto the playing field of Resonanz – Post-Socialist Group Improvisation – a participatory format she developed in 2020/21 in collaboration with the performer and choreographer Hermann Heisig and a group of co-reseachers, among them Ute Waldhausen. For this occasion the game will change its rules. Ritual associations that have emerged in Anna Zett’s research will be performed, experienced and discussed by herself and her guests. Everyone present is invited to participate physically, as well as to make use of the conversational playing positions.
Guests: Rainer Görß, Hermann Heisig, Ulrike Stöhring, Ute Waldhausen
The event will take place in German.