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DESCRIPTION:'I am not a monster\, I am a mother.' (...) 'You are not a mons
 ter\,' I said. But I was lying. What I actually wanted to say was that bei
 ng a monster is not such a terrible thing. (...) To be a monster is to be 
 a hybrid signal\, a beacon: refuge and warning all at once.\n— from Ocean 
 Vuong’s On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous\n\nA group of children wanders thr
 ough a peculiar landscape. Figures tower before them like symbols from a h
 idden world. The unconscious serves as their vehicle\; historical and inst
 inctive fears act as their vanishing point.\n\nHow does one’s worldview fo
 rm in childhood\, and how do we find ourselves within it? MONSTER is inter
 ested in the early childhood process of becoming an 'I' and in the relatio
 nship that crucially shapes it: the bond between mother and child. In this
  piece\, a specific relational constellation takes center stage: the relat
 ionship between white mothers and non-white children within the German-spe
 aking context. Public perception of this relationship is historically char
 ged—from the colonial era to the post-war period in Germany with its so-ca
 lled 'Besatzungskinder' (children of white mothers and Black soldiers of t
 he occupying armies)\, through to the present day. Even in Switzerland—whi
 ch officially never held its own colonies but was entangled in the colonia
 l project through missionary work and the private plantations of Swiss com
 panies and institutions—the public discourse on white mothers and non-whit
 e children is historically rooted. MONSTER asks in what ways non-white chi
 ldren growing up in a white context are inevitably confronted with this no
 rm and history during their self-formation.\n\nThrough 'language horror\,'
  an uncanny placenta\, and dreamlike movement\, the new work by the artist
  trio Recke/Lehmann/Froelicher links universal subject psychology with ind
 ividual self-actualization on a socio-political level.\n\nAnta Helena Reck
 e\, Anna Froelicher\, and Maxi Menja Lehmann shape space\, time\, and lang
 uage into sensual yet political sequences of images on stage. With their c
 ollaborative work Die Kränkungen der Menschheit (The Affronts to Humanity)
 \, they previously garnered significant attention for their detailed gaze 
 at seemingly universal themes and stories. In MONSTER\, the trio now explo
 res a relational structure that occupies us all from birth.
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SUMMARY:Schauspielhaus Zürich: MONSTER
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