"Why do you describe your left hand as weak?" the well-known disability activist Judith Heumann once asked the composer Molly Joyce in a conversation. Joyce has an impaired left hand due to a previous car accident. Heumann's question motivated the artist to rethink weakness and other terms and to ask what these terms mean for people with different disabilities and experiences. The result is "Perspective" - an ongoing, participatory project that Molly Joyce developed together with people with disabilities.
The core of "Perspective" are interviews that the artist conducted with different people: What does access mean to you? What does care mean to you? What does independence mean to you? What does healing mean to you? The resulting videos and posters will be shown at various public locations as part of the JETZT! Festival in Esslingen.
In addition to this multimedia platform, the composer also raises the "Perspective" project to a musical level and immerses the otherwise rather sober, typographic video material in magical, moving soundscapes. Question after question, statement after statement becomes a track of its own - and the artist creates space to perform and interpret her compositions.
For the chamber concert "Perspectives", Isabelle Raphaelis (flute), Paul Ebert (drums) and Mari Nagahara (violoncello) were inspired by the composer Joyce's approach of adopting very different perspectives. In addition to compositions by Molly Joyce, works by Missy Mazzoli, Johann Sebastian Bach and Sarah Kirkland Snider will also be played. The result is a musical narrative about our own fragility and the opportunity to find more understanding for one another by changing perspectives.