Susan Sontag, My Mother and I: Performative reading in Bochum
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A performative reading about illness, memory, and fragile coexistence
Susan Sontag, My Mother and I combines literature, drawing, voice, and conversation into an evening that brings Susan Sontag's thoughts into the present. The multidisciplinary reading and exhibition in Bochum focuses on questions of illness, impermanence, and social cohesion.
Literary experience with contemporary relevance
Starting from Sontag's text Regarding the Pain of Others, a reading atmosphere unfolds that not only listens but also responds. Irene Schlump and Simone Heiser read from texts and diaries, associating freely and opening a space where the art of language and vulnerability touch each other.
When literature becomes a meeting
The evening emphasizes performative condensation over distance. Sonja Münten accompanies the reading with drawings, giving the moment a visual trace. Thus, a literary experience is created that does not remain in the text but continues to resonate in sound, gesture, and image. The audience is explicitly invited to find their own forms of expression and to carry the evening's questions with them.
Susan Sontag as an intellectual resonance space
Susan Sontag is among the most influential American essayists of the 20th century. She became known for her cultural-critical and aesthetic texts, including Notes on Camp and Illness as Metaphor, in which she sharpened the perception of art, body, and illness. Her work continues to shape the cultural discourse on representation, compassion, and self-determination.
An evening between audience, reading, and exhibition
The Bochum event connects literary quality with participatory openness. The mixture of reading, sound, installation, and drawing creates an intimate atmosphere where theater, literature, and reflection reinforce each other. It is precisely this transgression of boundaries that makes the evening so appealing to culture-interested visitors.
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Those interested in contemporary literary mediation, performative formats, and the ongoing relevance of Susan Sontag will experience a particularly dense evening in Bochum. Susan Sontag, My Mother and I invites you to experience language as a space for thought and encounter as an attitude live.
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