#amarkanwar

The performance is on the one hand an allegory for a ritual of counting the dead“ as explained in the story of "The Counting Sisters", written by Amar Kanwar, which is based on Indian folk tales, where six women (in an act of political resistance) spend their time collecting information around people who recently died due to political „issues“. On the other hand it is the translation of a general phenomenon of digital interconnection: The more information we receive, the less we notice. Or to express it differently: The more we see, the less we see. Every day our online newspapers and social media timelines are covered with a vast amount of latest news, videos, pictures, blog posts and comments about 100.000 dead of yesterday, 235.000 of today and a forecast for tomorrow. The dead disappear behind mere numbers. An incident becomes more grave as more dead are counted.