conversations in ten questions 21 : Stefan Kaegi
What is the spirit of theatre/performance in your opinion? How do you define contemporary theatre/performance? It’s live art. It creates unique moments between people. But I prefer to make it instead of defining it! Do you believe in the transformative power of art? How? It has the ritualistic strength for us to connect offline to our very direct surroundings. It establishes utopian relation-ships. This is certainly powerful but also quite unmeasurable in it’s effects. Which is great - finally something that doesnt need to be efficient! How do you think that this pandemic which humanity is facing at a global scale today will transform performing arts in the future? It has certainly slowed us down a bit in an overproducing world (also in an overproducing art world). Some of this new perspective may be good to keep. The toughest impact this certainly had for the generation that is just about to start their carreers now - they have spent more than a year of their education in lock