AGNUS DEI

AGNUS DEI eröffnet dem Publikum den Besuch eines kinky Klosterordens. In den zum heiligen Ort umgebauten Räumen des Societaetstheaters zeigt sich diese Gemeinde erstmals der Außenwelt und verhandelt Fragen an die Verbindung von Sexualität und Macht in einer Gesellschaft, die ihre Werte vom Christentum geerbt hat.

fachbetrieb rita grechen ist ein interdisziplinäres künstlerisches Kollektiv mit wechselnder Besetzung. Sie entwickeln Musiktheaterabende, Ausstellungen, Installationen, Durational Performances, Texte, Filme und prozessorientierte Arbeiten. Viele ihrer Projekte setzen sich mit dem Publikum und dem Ort der Versammlung auseinander.

FEELINGS umfasst die künstlerischen Arbeiten, performative Forschung, Games und Gefühle, die Jil Dreyer und Josef Mehling seit 2017 mit- und füreinander entwickeln. Das Kollektiv arbeitet an den Schnittstellen von Performance, Theater und Medienkunst und beschäftigt sich mit Themen rund um Körper, Sexualität, Identität und der Frage nach der eigenen Position im Erzählten.

ENGLISH VERSION:

Since millennia, Christianity has regulated sexuality. / What is allowed and what is not. /  The Church has forbidden, punished, humiliated. / The order of AGNUS DEI has always been different. / They had no need for an external authority. / They wanted to get down on their knees and moan their ejaculatory prayers. / Holy iconographies illustrated their fantasies. / For their play with sex and power. / Their holiest commandment: consent. / For a long time they have had to remain hidden – now they may finally show themselves. / Sing with us. / Enumerate – your desires, your sins, your wounds. / Come as you are.

AGNUS DEI invites the audience into the cloister of a kinky religious order that questions and renegotiates the relationship between sexuality and power in a society shaped by Christian values. The Societaetstheater has been repurposed as the holy chambers of this congregation, which is opening its doors to the outside world for the very first time.

fachbetrieb rita grechen is an interdisciplinary artistic collective with a changing cast. We develop music theater pieces, exhibitions, installations, durational performances, texts, films, and process-oriented projects. Many of our projects deal with the audience and the venues themselves.

FEELINGS comprises the artistic works, performative research, games, and feelings that Jil Dreyer and Josef Mehling have been developing with and for each other since 2017. We work at the intersection of performance, theatre, and multi-media art and frequently foreground investigations into corporeality, identity, and situatedness in our projects.