Fabian Oderbolz

Stück draws on theater as an artistic form and stages the processes involved in the production of its particular mode of reality. Two actresses and an actor find themselves confronted with a text on sheets of paper and, as in an audition or rehearsal, are asked to develop a role or character on its basis. What ensues is an accumulation of speech, disjointed gestures, movements, unresolved impulses, unfinished actions, and competing emotional tones. The divide between actress and role emerges as porous and unstable. Expressive possibilities are stretched, and the relationship between language and the body is laid open. Stück is about the multiplicity of the self and its ongoing creation in speech and bodily play. Language arises as a territory of freedom from the boundaries of identity and conventions of expression. At its base lies hope for union and reciprocity.

Photos: Juliia Taras assisted by Ingrid Giordan, Camila Martin Barla, Cindy Gloggner and Sofia Achoukhi

Video of Documentation: Aino Spiess, Camila Martin Barla and Cindy Gloggner
Background audio from freesound.org

Many thanks to:

Katharina Gieron, Ursula Marina Dolički Paliguz, Lukas Magnus Paulsteiner

Graduate Presentation filmed by: Christoph Cong Fässler, Lee Odenheimer

Film edited by: Christoph Cong Fässler