What happens to women in wars? The spectator wanders through a chaotic tent city, visiting the microcosms of armed and unarmed fights. In this walkable performative installation «WOMEN AND WAR» a ghostly presence builds up of things that are allegedly «far away» in Afghanistan or in the Congo or of what happened «a long time ago», for instance in the early twentieth century in Germany. «WOMEN AND WAR» also explores the belligerent dimension of the here and now. In this country.
The work of the Network of Factual Art (NOFA) is based on facts. Original documents, critically led interviews and research on site and in the archives are the basis of this interdisciplinary installation «WOMEN AND WAR». The narratives of the female every day in war is set in our immediate lives, the German speaking region: we hear women report whose complex journeys had led them from their experience of war to Germany, Austria or Switzerland – or which had sent them forth from here.
War is present in various kinds of ways and its sheer force in our immediate proximity is unexpected – and it poses the unsettling question of how the consequences of war directly influence our everyday life and our society in the 21st century.
Simone Eisenring grew up in Switzerland and studied directing in Berlin. She has shown her work at the Staatsschauspiel Dresden, the HAU Berlin, the Theaterhaus Jena, the Tron Theatre Glasgow and at the Teatrul Odeon Bukarest. Together with the theatre scholar, actress and editor Anna Eger she founded the Network of Factual Art (NOFA) in 2011. Its goal is to make historic events and perspectives accessible for a broader public.
