Stephan Langer & Ralf-Joachim Stur

Fog theatre/live spoken word performance with music and bodies in fog

Maindeck and various spaces
Various actions without fixed times

Heaven on Earth deals with disorientation, mental horror and weather phenomena. We do not bring a finished text with us (because texts are never ‘finished’ anyway): as part of an ongoing workshop taking place on site, we continually open up images and themes, begin sentences that lead elsewhere than we might have thought, that may never be finished: Digressions stop halfway through, opening up new possibilities. The constant writing process on the fabric of words always culminates, spoken in the room, in spoken choreographies and battles announced and accompanied by analogue synthesiser sounds, which are performed live, by us together, with or against each other. We speak into microphones, through pipes and hoses, with and without effects – we wear headlamps on the front and back of our heads (white in front, red in back) and, with no prospect of redemption, approach the question of how to euphorically lead oneself astray: despite everything, entering into words, going down with words, becoming one with nothingness.

Stephan Langer, works as a (theatre) author, translator, dramaturge and film curator. He collectively conceives theatre (Rohe Eier 3000), performance (Freundliche Mitte) and an annual film art festival (GEGENkino Leipzig).

Ralf-Joachim Stur, works as an author, filmmaker, journalist and project coordinator. Employee at Stadtwerkstatt Linz.