WEAVING THE WATER

as part of Temple of Alternative Histories State Theater Kassel May - September 2022 curated by Anna Run Tryggvadottir, Cassandra Edlefsen Lasch and Thorleifur Orn Arnasson.

The Temple Project is an interdisciplinary experiment in which visual and performing arts work together with the participation of the wider community to collectively create narratives in the space between fact and fiction. In 2022 (March-September), the temple project will bring together performing arts (opera, dance, theatre), contemporary sculptural and audio installations, and scientific public discourse in a processual work of art at the Kassel State Theater. The artistic team of the temple project, 140 participants from the Kassel State Theater, the S4F community (Scientists for Future), the University of Kassel and representatives of the Kassel local community are looking for public, artistic and scientific examination of the current state of affairs via various stages and platforms.

In a 45-minute participatory performance, Katrin Hahner guided the participants through a somatic experience of the water.

Participants poured their memories and conversations into the water which was then poured out in the dry grass in front of the theatre to merge again with the land.