Ruhrtriennale
Eartha’s Guide to Everyday Living or how to become a super hero
Wednesday, 11 September2019
20:00
Zeche Carl, Maschinenhaus
Essen
Sabine Ercklentz: trumpet, electronics
Andrea Neumann: inside piano, mixer
Ute Wassermann: voice, objects
Katharina Ernst: percussion
Kaffe Matthews: electronics
Tina Wilke: video
Afro-american singer performer Eartha Kitt as Catwoman in the 1960s white, male TV series ‚Batman’ was the trigger to make this show. We found her to be an iconic figure of female empowerment which took us, six white female artists, on individual journeys making 4 chapters, gradually finding a collective super power on the way:
we transcend our musical instruments to weapons, we ignite non-human energies as hybrid beings between humans and animals, we change our musical reality with linguistic actions, we examine the reality behind the system ‚machine’ and invent the antithesis to it.
Commissioned by Ruhrtriennale
- supported by Hauptstadtkulturfond