DIE KREBSE

Elena Kakaliagou, active in Berlin’s contemporary music scene for 10 years, invites her co-musician Evi Filippou, and artist Natalia Manta to a polymorphic in progress performance for two nights at KET. Special guests of the night will be Savina Yiannatou (on stage) and Fotini Banou (pre-recorded samples).

Inspired by the play of Jean Paul Sartre “The Condemned of Altona”, the four artists attempt a reapproach, each with her own art and technique, to the fluidity of time and the irrationality of nationalism within this fluidity.

Taking the image of crabs as judges of Nazi Germany, Kakaliagou, Manta, and Philippou extend the idea of responsibility, to all mankind, from then until now and produce a performance where all three arts are complementary and equal.

Excerpts from the original text, new musical compositions and covers for horn and marimba, installations with pendulums, crabs, live visuals, shadows and mirrors, seek to create a night where art reminds us that even in the darkest parts of history, man always had an option.

Theodor W. Adorno: “How we will continue with these situations and the responsibility of how they will continue is up to us all”.