An audiovisual tour, a performative installation on a wasteland.

Can we gain insights into human life by observing flora? Magdalena Weniger (performance) and Maren Wickwire (film) turn to wastelands in the landscape, as well as human biographies, and research their creation, development and explore their potential.

While the performance of three dancers and the soundtrack of interview fragments and field recordings can be experienced directly, other multidimensional exhibition objects must first be discovered. The tour thus becomes an individual confrontation with the 13,000 square meter wasteland on site and the theme in itself.

In their botanical work cycle, KOMA&Ko explore the dynamic human-environment exchange and collaborate with experts from art and science. In addition to the performative installation brach und wild (2021), the multi-layered solo performance Tiarella Hybrid - a botanical personality study (2021) and Compost Composing (2022), a performance walk that resulted in an immersive audiovisual installation, were created.

"There is a lot to discover. Getting involved requires patience, calm, time. Speed or duration are just as freely selectable categories here as the freedom to get involved, to endure the emptiness or not."

Rico Stehfest/ review Dresdner 03.09.2021

"The partly indeterminate openness and vastness of the surface, the great distance between the stations with their own "cosms", the partly loose textures of meaning in the interviews. The three performers who played the surface like allegorical figures in a Kurosawa film. Here, it all worked well together for me."

Friedrich Hausen/ Philosopher

"It was just the right day to stretch time and space on a brownfield site."

Florence Freitag/ artist

"I go home very enriched."

Frau Frank/ pensioner

"A really beautiful work. We know what you can do on stage, but the fact that you dared to work in such a reduced way on such a large surface, you managed it well and it still bears your signature."

Elisabeth Krefta/ Program Team Hellerau EZK