Knitting on the myth

Spring Festival ­4

March 26 - April 29, 2023
The end of a world and the new beginning of many
In Götterdämmerung (Twilight of the Gods) in 1876, Richard Wagner let a world perish from its own set-up for the worse. As a result of the self-sacrifice of Brünnhilde, Valhalla burns down, the Rhine bursts its banks and cleanses the world of its sins - everything is back on track. But what is going to happen now? Wagner did not want to answer this question himself, and apparently neither can we as a world community. To understand ourselves no longer as the sole rulers and managers of the world like chief god Wotan would be a beginning, if one believes new critical approaches and non-rationalistic world concepts. Seeking connections with a nature that perhaps speaks to us permanently, but which we cannot understand because we have become deaf to its admonitions, would be a first step. Let us knit ourselves into cocoons of relationships with non-human life and take ourselves out of the center for a moment.

April 14-22, 2023

For one week, the glass wing of the Württembergischer Kunstverein (WKV) becomes the festival center of the Stuttgart State Opera
Vernissage of the Festival Space

Fr April 14, 8 p.m.
WKV

Join us in opening our main venue for this year's Spring Festival at Württembergischer Kunstverein.
Vernissage of the Festival Space

Welcome and opening with studio umschichten, Felix Rothenhäusler, Ville Haimala and musicians* of the Staatsorchester Stuttgart
Erda speaking HelloHello

Sound installation
daily until April 22

Live performance
with mezzo-soprano Shannon Keegan
Mon 17 April,7.30 pm
Wed 19 April, 7.30 pm
Fri 21 April, 7.30 p.m.
WKV



Erda speaking HelloHello

In collaboration with the artificial intelligence text generator GPT3 and the avant-garde musician Ville Haimala, director Felix Rothenhäusler rewrites the Ring of the Nibelung from Erda's point of view and lets her ask in the voice of mezzo-soprano Shannon Keegan: What would a future without us look like?
Eyes as big as Plates
catalogue presentation and artists’ talk

Tue 18 April, 6 pm
WKV

We present the art catalog Eyes as Big as Plates, Vol 2. with whose works we design communications this 2022/23 season.
Eyey as Big as plates

Artists Karoline Hjorth and Riitta Ikonen will present their international art project and offer a workshop on portrait photography with natural materials.
→ pre-registration : oper@staatstheater-stuttgart.de
Film series I at the CINEMA Kino
at Marquardtbau

Tue 18 April, 8.15 pm

Grünliche Dämmerung (Lukas Rehm, 2022)
Alien (Ridley Scott, 1979)
each introduction
Knitting on the thread of fate! –
participation project

Just as Wagner's Norns weave on the rope of fate, we want to knit together with you. Whether with arm, fingers or needles: Get your wool scraps out of the closets and become part of a public joint installation with your knitted work in the Stuttgart Schloßgarten or even in the stage set of Saint François d'Assise. Be part of it!
Thu, April 20 6 pm

Film series II at the CINEMA Kino
at Marquardtbau

Thu 20 April, 8.15 pm

Grünliche Dämmerung (Lukas Rehm, 2022)
Mother! (Darren Aronofsky, 2017)
each introduction
Ring-Roundtable

Sat 22 April, 7.30 pm
WKV

Talk with artists of the Stuttgart Ring of the Nibelung.
Ring-Roundtable

Included:
Stephan Kimmig, Pauline Kalker from Hotel Modern, Julia Mossé and Benoît Resillot from Ulla von Brandenburg's team, Marco Štorman, Killian Farrell, musical assistant of Cornelius Meister, and as special guest the literature and musicologist Prof. Dr. Nicola Gess.
Party and costume ball
Come, be mother nature’s bitch!

Sat 22 April, 10 pm
Studio Amore

A posthumanist costume ball for mushroom enthusiasts, insectoids and hybrids of all kinds.
Party and costume ball
Come, be mother nature’s bitch!

Put on your antennae, grow your roots, spread your wings and get ready for life after human. The future is weird!
Hosted by Flametta M. Sauvage. Music, dance, drinks, costume contest, live acts, etc.
→ More details from March
The long night of transitions

Fri, April 28

4.30 p.m. State Gallery Stuttgart
18.30 h Art Museum Stuttgart
21.00 h WKV
The long night of transitions

Under the title Die Lange Nacht der Übergänge (The Long Night of Transitions), the musicians of the Staatsorchester Stuttgart will create exciting connections with solo and ensemble pieces to the exhibitions Cindy Sherman - Anti-Fashion (Staatsgalerie Stuttgart), SHIFT. AI and a Future Community (Kunstmuseum Stuttgart), and Defiant Muses.