Charlotte Eifler in collaboration with Ebba Fransén-Waldhör, Basak Günak, Mona Louisa Hempel, Alejandra Janus, Jule Köpke, Wiebke Müller, Jasmina Rezig, Alfonso Rituerto, Helin Ulas.
Opening: October 20, 2023, 7.30 pm
Performances: October 20, 24, 25 and 26, each 6pm
**For the performances please register: welcome@gfzk.de**
(The performance on October 20 is already sold out)
In the middle of a technology fair, something extraordinary happens when Queen Amalie Auguste from the 18th century mysteriously appears in the present. She goes in search of her diamond-studded breast ribbon, which was stolen from the Green Vault in Dresden in 2019. A theft that intertwines colonial history, class issues, justice, and the art world, and makes Amalie travel through time in quantum leaps.
Techniques of Misdirection are presented in a room-sized installation and performances in which supposed magic and algorithmic prediction meet. Misdirection refers to a craft for manipulating perception and visual memory; it is used in sorcery and warfare, in politics, and for criminal purposes such as theft.
Charlotte Eifler (concept, direction, scenography)
with
Ebba Fransén-Waldhör (scenography)
Marie Gimpel (2nd scenography)
Jule Köpke (scenographic assistance)
Alejandra Janus (Production)
Wiebke Müller (Costume Design)
Basak Günak (Soundscape)
Jasmina Rezig (Sound live)
Marja Christians (Performance)
Mona Louisa-Melinka Hempel (Performance)
Alfonso Rituerto (Performance)
Anja Kaiser (Graphic Design)
Helin Ulas (Programming)
With the kind support of the Cultural Office of the City of Leipzig and the Cultural Foundation of the Free State of Saxony. It is partly financed through public funds on the basis of the budget approved by the members of the Landtag of the Free State of Saxony.
Thanks to Gloria Mueller, Paul Glaw, Saša Ivanova, Ingmar Stange, Judith Meister, Samuli Salonen, Julia Gerke, Morton Bjerre, HfG Karlsruhe, Sebastian Schäfer and Julian Kuf.