Gap

How do you find something you don't remember, or what is elusive? You don't know what you don't know, or what you've never been told. Something is missing in a gap, and that missing is palpable. Experiences are lost, but the pain and reality of them are not. How should we actually remember? Because if we practice that the wrong way, we go in the wrong direction. In their new performance Void, performance collective ROTOR practices remembering: together they search for what they have forgotten, or will forget.

Our collective memory is under pressure and the generation that can still recount the Second World War from personal experience is getting smaller and smaller. With that, not only a generation is disappearing, but also an embodied form of remembering: memory is increasingly shifting from bodily experience to a handed down story. And as with any story, there is room for distortion, selection and reinterpretation. With Void, ROTOR makes a radically empathetic attempt in the practice of remembering, the transmission of physical experience across generations, and how we can ensure that collective memory and thus shared values can remain intact.