All the time we spent, sitting in the room – bedroom, living room, bathroom -, waiting the time to pass, waiting all this to end. In the end, we are all just sitting in the room, which is different from the one everyone else is in now.

Things loves to hide, things are there, but they are not there. They have withdrawn, yet we have traces, samples, memories,…

Sylvain and me had an exchange via e-mail about the project and I’m very glad that he allowed me to quote one section out of one of his mails which I regard as very important and deeply necessary in our days.

At the beginning everything is possible. It is a play in between randomness and free will.

How do composers and performers work and communicate these Corona-Days? How do the rehearsals in different parts of the Corona World take place?

Paula Sánchez, Vicente Moronta and Luciana Morelli.
In this project, we investigate different manifestations of the fragmentary in today’s culture.

Tsugumi Shirakura, Tomohiro Iino

Der Bundesrat spricht zu Journalisten, welche anschliessend Fragen stellen. Ein/e Dolmetscher/in übersetzt in Gebärdensprache.

After many weeks of video conferencing with screen sharing during the Corona lockdown, I wondered what happens when two computers on a table directly opposite each other are doubly connected via two providers (skype and jitsi), each partially sharing their screen and filming the other screen simultaneously.

We took two texts that were talking about the Spanish Flu situation in 1918, one a fictional letter from F. Scott Fitzgerald quarantined in the South of France (written by Nick Farriella in March 2020 in the style of a parody; see: Link), the other describing the actual symptoms of the pandemia of 1918 quoted from the book Krankheit und Tod 1918: zum Umgang mit der Spanischen Grippe in Frankreich, England und in dem Deutschen Reich by Marc Hieronimus.