Frankfurt Lab

On one night, students from the Institute for Applied Theater Studies in Gießen are showcaseing their performances together. Students from other HTA partner universities (HfG Offenbach, Goethe University Frankfurt) are also participating in the projects. Each of the works engages in its own way with the unfinished and the unrecognizable, with transitions and excesses, and not least with the images that contradiction creates rather than its resolution. Accordingly, the three works are not simply presented separately from one another, but are instead layered into one another and brought into tension with each other.

Der Test
by Hannah Linda Theodora Rumstedt
With Simon Bambach and Philipp Wagner
Armed with a camera, through the perspective of a first-person shooter, we search — between cornflakes, karaoke, and the ambivalence of violence and its gestures — for the right framing, and for a way out of the frame.

Manchmal diese Unmöglichkeit
by Denise Lim
With Milan Eckart, Jiyoung Yoo, Freddi Schnellinger, Emilia Puiadas
“Manchmal diese Unmöglichkeit” (working title) takes as a starting point the previous collaboration at the exhibition “Manchmal diese Möglichkeit” by Simon Gilmer at Zollamt Galerie in Offenbach. “Manchmal diese Unmöglichkeit” explores the excess in every image and the reconstructability of memory at the interface between dance and scenography. In a searching movement, something is to be approached that cannot yet be recognized.

On Fantasy, Residue and (soft?) Lies
by Azahara Sanz Jara
The yellow was yellow. She hid from the guy throwing the trash. That wall was cold, this time she kissed it with her cheek. I heard a scream from the distance answering back the same exact words. And purple flowers. Ok, the sixth time she realised that the length of the kiss affected the bond with the brick and this brick had been special, not the kind of special because of being the first brick but special because of their eyes.