Hochsee
(2013)

In Hochsee, the performers from Kollabor take to the "high seas". They perform on a small, wobbly platform in the vastness of the ocean. Dragging their shoes behind them, the performers reach the loaded ship and set sail. Cut off from the world, they are thrown back on themselves, exposed to themselves, with only themselves, their bodies, their pulse. While they oscillate emotionally between arrival and departure, land and sea, fulfillment and new longing, a playful, experimental reconfiguration of life takes place in this place outside of all places, or as Michel Foucault writes: "Ships are ultimately a piece of floating space, places without a place, completely dependent on themselves, self-contained and at the same time at the mercy of the endless sea." Were it not for the account of a boat refugee's experience of his crossing from Africa to Europe, which opens up the self-contained place to the wide world.