Stück

Abstract

"Stück" draws on theatre 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.