Residuum

[A lullaby for cables]

– C’est qui qui pleure dans la nuit?
– Ce sont les cables qui s’ennuient.

In her performance Ute Waldhausen looks into the outcast and the socially forgotten, the buried alive. The part of society that has become invisible.
Using discarded cellar cables she poses the question of their possible productive residual potential.
It is about electricity and conductivity and about THE residual energy: something that actually moves us.
The Residuum is considered an emotional structure that cannot be resolved analytically. Structures of need and statements of action thus elude any rationalization.
The situation moves between telepathy, exorcism, and lullaby.