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What to do with a festival for young performance artists during a pandemic? With a heavy heart, we had to cancel last year’s edition of Rakete. This year, it will take place online and in two parts – with productions specifically designed for the digital sphere by the artists. The contributions will be available for 72 hours as a free video-on-demand on our website.

Probably all of us have seen images that depict the unfree, but what about representations of freedom? And where can we find the actual promise of freedom in contemporary pictures and artworks? A provocative question, but active political consciousness mostly thrives on a critical mode of inquiry. Monuments like the Statue of Liberty in New York do not suffice as symbols one can belief in anymore. In his latest book, Freiheit ist kein Bild, Jörg Heiser analyses representational strategies that create a sense of solidarity among those who are at odds with what it means to be oppressed and unfree under the current status quo. The lecture will be accompanied by Oscar Chan Yik Long’s drawings, making this a dance of free and unfree spirits.

Part 2 of Rakete festival presents two pieces that had already been scheduled for last season: Heritage and memory are not only the main ingredients of Camilla Schielin’s very first solo production, but Eva-Maria Schaller’s solo also draws on aspects of choreographic-ideological heritage.