Gertrude Stein’s mesmerizing text Objects Lie On A Table (1922) is read by a speaker. Simultaneously ordinary everyday objects are continuously rearranged on a tabletop. The emerging still lives are framed by a camera and projected live onto a screen.

By placing common objects next to one another they seem to become animated and turn into protean characters in a play, constantly changing their meaning.The fleeting arrangements suggest questions of representation, art history, of gender, political issues and environmental concerns. Stein's cubistic, deconstructed use of text material with its rhythmical repetition of fragments is highly associative and dense, minimal visual arrangements bring about a range of associations. A strange methodical resemblance between text and image becomes apparent.

DURATION
35'

CONCEPT AND PERFORMANCE
Uta Eisenreich and Eva Meyer-Keller

VOICE
Rebecca Sakoun

VENUES

9 – 10.5.2015
19. Internationales Figurentheaterfestival Erlangen, Erlangen (DE)
performance work in progress

14.2.2015
Ellen de Bruijne Projects, Amsterdam (NL)
performance work in progress

24.10.2014
Fiac, Paris (FR)
performance
work in progress

8.10.2014
Minoriten, Steirischer Herbst, Graz (AT)
performance work in progress