prospects [Ende in Sicht]
Together with the painter Susa Blaufuß and the theater maker Nora Strömer, Emil Borgeest invites visitors to a melancholic spectacle in the gallery of the Semperdepot, focusing on backdrops and the use of it.
Backdrops are large-format paintings that are mainly used in theaters. Their motifs often complement the closed architecture of a stage space with the image of a natural environment or a horizon. On the basis of this contradiction, the performance examines the relationship between imagination and reality in theatrical spaces. What is the relationship between the narrated [exterior] space and the existing stage setting? How can we tell stories about a world that is too big to be represented? What is seen and what is imagined?
prospects [ENDE IN SICHT] is a collaboration between the painter Susa Blaufuß, the theater maker Nora Strömer and Emil Borgeest [stage design class]. The work forms the third part of his performance series at the Academy of Fine Arts, in which he declares individual theatrical means to be the center of the performative event and investigates and explores their [perhaps] unsuspected potentials.