Maria Magdalena Ludewig & Guests
Übung in Trauer - Exercise in Mourning
Past dates
10/12/17
11:59 PM
10/13/17
12:00 AM
10/14/17
12:00 AM
10/15/17
12:00 AM
Rituals of grief – no society can make do without them. They define the community, offer support and celebrate death as a part of life – many of them have been forgotten. Death has become a private failure or a medical mistake. Showing sadness and pain openly threatens routine productivity. EXERCISE IN MOURNING commemorates 60 hours of an emergency state, a collective practice in grief – intense, exhausting, restless, radical. The empty hall will become a cathedral of parting for those who have never found a ritual. It is a house of common loneliness in which you can lose yourself. Somewhere between warmed-up lasagna, Rumanian mourners, neon lights at the dissecting table, booming basses, love in war, the lost child, the father who was never found and the rising sun.