The Show’s Over

Wu Tsang's films unite documentary and narrative techniques with fantastical excursions into the imaginary, exploring hidden histories, marginalised narratives and the act of performance itself. In early March, she and Moved by the Motion made a film with the ensemble. Based on the poem come on, get it by Fred Moten and the Report from Occupied Territory by James Baldwin, the camera moves continuously between individual choreographies and movements and actions of the group, ranging from improvised music to ascents and descents on a Penrose triangle – a triangle that connects and separates the performers depending on their perspective. With Fred Moten's Poem, the film explores motifs of indivisibility, fluidity and watery land and mud, and investigates subterranean currents of resistance and the politics of (in)visibility. The film was made on the set of Composition III, a production at the Schiffbau that will never take place and whose prehistory can now be experienced at the Pfauen.

Schauspielhaus Zürich exhibits The Show’s Over from 11 – 14 March in collaboration with Shedhalle and as part of the Shedhalle programme Proto-Club: We all move together, which gives space to the longing for the physical experience of music and shared movement.