MEDIATHEK

Write A Work in Progress by Sivan Cohen shines a light on the manner in which one's voice is heard or silenced. It situates the writer at the threshold between "to write" and "to be written", between inner and external voices, between body and spirit.

The dialog between this text and the musician Avital Cohen, puts her onstage in place of the writer who needs to give (or not to give) voice to "many things" that "ask to be written" as well as to the ones which "really ask to remain unwritten".

Together with Avital Cohen (flutes, live electronics), who is playing and writing music onstage, there is another performer (actor Ralph Tristan Engelmann) as a kind of mediator between the audience and the musician, between inner and outer voices.

The "things" that are simultaneously going on outside and inside the flutist’s playing body (thoughts, feelings, sounds, movements) receive little attention, if any, during a classical flute concert, and the sounds produced by the audience (footsteps, talking) are usually considered to be interruptions. In this work they all become present onstage, as an inseparable part of music playing.

The audience, sitting inside a sound installation, experiences a musical piece being written in the performance space with the body (or bodies), the flutes, the electronic instruments and the words. Through this kind of playing-composing-body`s choreography, we are trying to reveal the mechanism of giving a voice (and an ear).