Im Schatten der Präsenz – Ein Konzert der Stimmen

A play that asks questions: Who is allowed to speak, who remains in the shadows, and where does presence arise precisely where it is not expected?

Eight voices and a double bass explore how memory, care and democratic coexistence can be experienced in the context of law, power and social norms. The stories deal with disenfranchisement, deviation and survival. They tell of the shadow of administration, of human dignity, of care as resistance and of tenderness as political practice – always where presence only shows itself in the spaces in between.

The project is not a linear narrative. It is a resonance chamber: a choir of the unelected, a music of interruption, an invitation to listen, even in the spaces in between, in the hidden. Where language breaks, presence becomes palpable; where the visible is absent, resistance takes effect.

The texts are based on Sabine_ Hark’s book “Gemeinschaft der Ungewählten. Umrisse eines politischen Ethos der Kohabitation” (Community of the Unchosen. Outlines of a Political Ethos of Cohabitation) (2021). They translate theory into aesthetic, musical and performative forms. “Im Schatten der Präsenz” (In the Shadow of Presence) makes visible what often remains invisible and gives a voice to those who need to be heard.