Subject to Change 

14.01.2014, Into The New Festival, The Arches, Glasgow, UK

Subject to Change is a durational performance of 5 hours following the Aristotelian dramatic structure of 5 acts.

Drawing from theatre theories by Bertolt Brecht, Antonin Artaud, Jerzy Grotowski, Peter Brook and Anne Bogart each act explores a different way, mode and methods to get in touch with the divine, the holy and the sacred, encouraging interconnection and attempting to overcome seperation.

Instead of following a narrative, each part of this piece attempts to reach altered states of consciousness by inducing trance and meditation as a way to create and enable a space for inner processes to be experienced by the audience.

These state of minds are achieved by durational actions of one hour where I, the performer, will serve as an audio-visual anchor by the beating of my heart, singing, cutting onions, speaking text, dancing - all of which are ways to „pray“ (to be understood in the most spiritual sense and not connected to a religion) and to come into connection with „One-ness“.

Act V ends in an ecstatic dance where the self disappears and dissolves - the newly formed community will be erupted and woken up from the shared dream space. After rubbing their eyes and looking at each other a new audience and community then eats a bowl of onion soup made during the performance.

Subject to Change 

14.01.2014, Into The New Festival, The Arches, Glasgow, UK

Subject to Change is a durational performance of 5 hours following the Aristotelian dramatic structure of 5 acts.

Drawing from theatre theories by Bertolt Brecht, Antonin Artaud, Jerzy Grotowski, Peter Brook and Anne Bogart each act explores a different way, mode and methods to get in touch with the divine, the holy and the sacred, encouraging interconnection and attempting to overcome seperation.

Instead of following a narrative, each part of this piece attempts to reach altered states of consciousness by inducing trance and meditation as a way to create and enable a space for inner processes to be experienced by the audience.

These state of minds are achieved by durational actions of one hour where I, the performer, will serve as an audio-visual anchor by the beating of my heart, singing, cutting onions, speaking text, dancing - all of which are ways to „pray“ (to be understood in the most spiritual sense and not connected to a religion) and to come into connection with „One-ness“.

Act V ends in an ecstatic dance where the self disappears and dissolves - the newly formed community will be erupted and woken up from the shared dream space. After rubbing their eyes and looking at each other a new audience and community then eats a bowl of onion soup made during the performance.

Performance and Concept: Lulu Obermayer

Music:

ACT II Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen, Gustav Mahler

ACT V Fluid's Motion

Lights: Oliver Gorman

Sound: Sam Cunningham