A project by Antonia Baehr and Lucile Desamory
Photo credit: Anja Weber
„Destroyed objects are even more important to me than new ones. Diderot himself loved his old robe, which was worn out and patched, because it was him. He had embedded himself in it. There was a familiarity between it and him. The object, when it has worked and is a little faded, has even more meaning than when it is new or does not belong to anyone. What I like is the relationship between the self and the thing, because the abject, the demolished, the fermented, I think these are things that don’t deserve cultural or even material discredit.“
François Dagognet, in À voix nue, France Culture, September 22, 1998
Fringe white, syringe, brown, brown, black, white, grey, elastic rope, hand twine, twine mixed, twine old, beige, brown, grey, twine, twine grey, twine beige, twine red, blue, roll A55, rail, rings, screw eyelets, eyelets, eyelet work, rings, carabiner, tulle, rose petals, anemone (colorful), tiger lily leaves, rose leaves, dandelion leaves, grass, foxglove, fiddle, leaf shapes, flowers, narrow leaves, very thin floral wire green red, wire, flower stems, furniture ornament, leaves red poppy with leaves, flower calyxes, full, gerbera, full, flower calyxes pointed, big gerbera, spring flowers, half, leaves, petals, bouquets, rose petals (coarse), rose leaves, empty, leaves, various kinds of flowers, wire leaves, de-fix foils (different colours), branches, leaves, long narrow leaves, petals, rose petals yellow, skull, pear, potato, potato, corn, face masks, ladies rococo, very old wigs, dreadlocks, hands/feet, intestines, bowels, hearts, teeth, eyes, penis, ears, roots, snow queen, long dark baal, smooth baal, smooth baal noses, warm foam parts, bald heads with hair, dolls, larvae, horns, lips, leather masks, horns, animal noses, tulle leftovers
Five small stages, four live improvised songs, twenty-three whatsapp messages, some dreams of the theatre, nine mushrooms, a treasure of petals and at least two magic tricks. Lucile Desamory and Antonia Baehr are interested in hidden classification systems. In their collaboration, they roam through stage elements they found at the scrapyard of the Leipzig Opera House and follow the fascination of worn objects, including some from their own past. They have painted, masks and portraits, they have had conversations, they will wear some wigs and in between they will lose their subject.
