MEDIATHEK

ELEANOR! (2004) is a critical portrait of the frenetic success drive that consumes a self-producing artist to the point where the survival-based need to promote oneself overrides artistic integrity. In this self-economization, the artist takes on several identities and vocations in order to serve an increasingly obscured desire to create. Through a "gently schizophrenic" web of interrelated activities that support and feed off of each other, the art, the artist, and the promotion fade into one. Titelvariante: Empathy, Empathy, Empathy (authorship is a black hole): A body, ‘read,’ finished? A book - a decaying carcass? Stench and falsity. The flesh is writing, and writing is never read: it always remains to be read, studied, sought, invented." (Hélène Cixous) (Quelle: KAAI-Theater) Master auf DV-1661.