Near My Ears — Premiere
Everyting takes time to ripen. Our journey to this show actually started 10 years ago at our residency in Brussels at QO2 where we developed the first prototype of our mobile live set up. Actually by then the text of Etel Adnan found us (in this order) — and has been accompanying us through different times. This text-tissue, as Etel would probably called it herself, made us search for her, and in 2017 we traveled to meet her in Paris in her apartment. We spoke about our work and what we would like to do with her “tissue” and she recorded it with us. We are so grateful to have met her in person. We have been patently waiting all these years and knew at some point these recordings will come to live again — which is now in Near my Ears.
The 14th and 15th of May and at Sommerblut Festival in Köln we premiere this piece together with two amazing local musicians Dorrit Bauerecker and Rochus Aust, Klaus, myself and Etels voice, walking through the city and trying to understand and feel what it means “to be in a time of war”…..
Tickets and more information here: https://www.sommerblut.de/de/veranstaltung/936-near-my-ears
“To be in a time of war”, a text by the Lebanese philosopher Etel Adnan Adnan, is the starting point for a ramble through the streets of Cologne. Simultaneous to war reports and world events, tourists stream towards the city center, homeless people, working people, children at play, party-goers, follow their everyday lives. As a mobile music theater, Near My Ears seeks out places where the quotidian and the political meet to create an approach to global connectedness.