Knitting on the myth
Spring Festival 4
March 26 - April 29, 2023
KNITTING ON THE MYTH
The end of a world and the new beginning of many
In Götterdämmerung (Twilight of the Gods) in 1876, Richard Wagner let a world perish from its own set-up for the worse. As a result of the self-sacrifice of Brünnhilde, Valhalla burns down, the Rhine bursts its banks and cleanses the world of its sins - everything is back on track. But what is going to happen now? Wagner did not want to answer this question himself, and apparently neither can we as a world community. To understand ourselves no longer as the sole rulers and managers of the world like chief god Wotan would be a beginning, if one believes new critical approaches and non-rationalistic world concepts. Seeking connections with a nature that perhaps speaks to us permanently, but which we cannot understand because we have become deaf to its admonitions, would be a first step. Let us knit ourselves into cocoons of relationships with non-human life and take ourselves out of the center for a moment.
April 14-22, 2023
For one week, the glass wing of the Württembergischer Kunstverein (WKV) becomes the festival center of the Stuttgart State Opera