Zum Ewigen Frieden!

With the attack on Ukraine, long-established political attitudes of people in this country are also being uprooted. Limited Blindness causes drifting and hardened positions to collide: Western European actors, Polish-German author Przemek Zybowski and Ukrainian musicians wrestle over peace and guilt.

"The state of nature is a state of war, peace must be made." proclaims Kant in his draft "On Perpetual Peace," later the template for the UN Charter. How does such an act of peacemaking work?

While in everyday life here the positions drift further and further apart, on November 9 a place of conclusion is created in the Theater im Delphi. The performers invoke peace in a theatrical séance or in self-mortifications, constantly turning other cheeks. They plunge discursively into Kant's or Latour's figures of thought in order to apply them to the banal and disastrous present. They inflate neoliberal or socio-activist peace utopias into their absoluteness - until they burst. Lovely promises of today's peace demagogues are turned upside down on the Delphi stage known as the wicked Moka Efti from Babylon Berlin.

Is it possible to crystallize new clarities from the rubbing longings for peace and their debris in the laboratory of the theater?

Przemek Zybowski, author and psychiatrist, writes for the work the dramatic long poem "Bloodlands", a traumatic depth psychogram of west-east relationship. Emilia Lomakova and Viktor Krysyuk compose sounds between romantic and new music on guitar, cello and sound system, tracing their turmoil between the state of emergency in Ukraine and everyday life in Berlin. The live music meets the embodied systems of order and peace proposals of Western thinkers and populists - and image bombs by video artist Pedro Deltell. Director and initiator Heiko Michels directs this collision of phantasms and facts.

---LIMITED BLINDNESS

Limited blindness is an association of performing artists. They realize theater works on the threshold of sound art, literature/philosophy and experiential art. Since 2002 they have been staging interventions at specific locations, on current urgent occasions. Using experimental strategies, they shift perceptual conventions, sharpening attention for political experiences that otherwise remain on the periphery of the field of vision - the result is spatial, sensual and direct theater.