In a culture saturated by visibility, this solo performance explores disappearance as a condition of perception.
A live body and its projected double begin in synchrony, only to slowly drift apart. This minimal delay opens a fracture—time slips, reality duplicates, and perception starts to fail. Through light, choreography, and low-tech illusions, visibility becomes unstable. The performer appears, fades, and vanishes in front of the audience. Blinding lamps invert the gaze, shifting power from being seen to controlling what can be seen. Invisibility emerges not as absence, but as a strategy.
The piece unfolds as a sequence of perceptual displacements—where presence is constantly negotiated, deferred, or withdrawn.
It ends with a fragile image: two burning points moving toward each other until they collide and extinguish themselves—a brief, domestic supernova.
"Loving would be easy, if your colours were like my dreams."
Pictures by Hans Diemel©
Text by Charles Bukowski "Ham on rye"
Song by Culture Club 'Karma Chameleon'
With the collaboration of Maika Knoblich
Produced by DasArts
Amsterdam 2010