Time has fallen asleep in the afternoon sunshine
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«Time has fallen asleep in the afternoon sunshine» is a library of living books. A group of performers has learnt one book of their choice by heart. Together these «books» spend time at the Pestalozzi Bibliothek sitting on chairs, walking around, quietly speaking to eachother, waiting to be picked up by a reader.
The piece by the Norwegian artist Mette Edvardsen was inspired by Ray Bradbury’s utopian novel «Fahrenheit 451» which describes a world where books are prohibited and burnt – they are labelled as dangerous. That world believes that true happiness can only be found through an absence of knowledge and individual thought. An underground resistance group opposes this regime by memorizing books in order to save them for the future.
«Seltsame Sterne starren zur Erde» Emine Sevgi Özdamar
«Loslabern» Rainald Goetz
«Faust» Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
«Bartleby, the Scrivener» Herman Melville
«Answered Prayers» Truman Capote
«Mrs Dalloway» Virginia Woolf
Location: PBZ Bibliothek Altstadt, Zähringerstrasse 17
Performance in English and in German.
Credits
Start every 30 mins
Ticketreservation:
kasse@gessnerallee.ch or 044 225 81 10