The video performance All the Way sets off on the trail of the YouTube hit ‘Double Rainbow Video’, which witnesses an epiphany: the protagonist claims to see God when a double rainbow appears – and then erupts in ecstasy. An actor from Frankfurt sets off on this quest and attempts to retrace this experience of ecstasy. The document of this re-enactment sparks an investigation into the media of video and performance, which in this piece interrogate each other via the mirror of the rainbow. What can video do – and what can’t it do? What kinds of spirituality does the internet create? Can the divine reveal itself in the digital space – and which subjects produce it? This piece searches for the prophets of the internet and its audience – all the way across the sky.
Von Jakob Engel, Annegret Schlegel und Jan Philipp Stange. Mit Jonathan Penca und Paul Vasquez
Mit freundlicher Unterstützung vom Mousonturm Frankfurt, der HTA und den Frankfurter Positionen Festival für Neue Werke.
Premiere am 31.1.17 im Mousonturm Frankfurt, beim Frankfurter Positionen Festival für Neue Werke
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