[re]visiting Moers Festival

Now 50 years old, the festival was designed from the outset to be an alternative concept and to reject the mainstream. Instead, it wanted to be understood as a large-scale (social) experiment in which the exchange between actors and spectators was part of the plan. The [re]visiting Moers Festival is not about a meta-narrative. [re]visiting Moers Festival is a collaborative project in which stage actors, festival visitors, festival staff, photographers and other contemporary witnesses have an equal say, their voices condensed kaleidoscopically into a polyphony of 50 stories.
It is a book in which people remember. They do this in their very own way, sometimes from a distance in the form of a retrospective, sometimes by immersing themselves in a "back then", in whose contemporary language no one had yet critically reflected on the term "exotic" or had an awareness of the gendering of words. Sometimes it is the bundling of the feeling "moers" in the few lines of a poem, sometimes the invention of a moers formula or the quick stroke of a pencil that leads to a drawing. Our work consisted primarily of capturing these stories in words and images and giving the book a rhythm that occasionally adds a blank page to the fast pace of the moers stories as a contrast and space for the reader's own memories.

A publication of Moers Kultur GmbH.

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