A contribution to The Science Year 2024 – Freedom and a cooperation between the CATS, Worldmaking in Global Perspective – A Dialogue with China, Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften, and the Junge Kantorei Frankfurt/Main. The performance will involve Taiwan artist Chi-Han Feng 馮紀涵 (*1991) in a dialogical performance of Israel in Egypt by the Junge Kantorei (Frankfurt, Heidelberg), directed by Jonathan Hofmann, and performed in Frankfurt and Heidelberg:

G. F. Händel – Israel in Egypt Concert / Projection / Installation  

All three events start at 6pm.  

The brutal struggle for one's homeland and associated territorial claims to exclusive ownership, which so many people in the most diverse places in the world are experiencing these days, is  part of an old story from the very first chapters of the Bible, which has been taken up and reworked in many different ways in literature, music and painting: The Israelites, oppressed in Egyptian exile, succeed - with God's (brutal) help - in breaking free—in search of home. Handel's oratorio Israel in Egypt is a violent story of this act. In this performance, the visually powerful texts from the bible, in their musical rendering by Händel, enter a dialogue with the experiences of other  people searching for home—set into scene by the Taiwanese multimedia artist FENG Chi-Han 馮紀涵, who brings the story into the present and makes it tangible.