Sex & Death (and the Internet)
Samara Hersch
Each 30 minutes from 11.30 am to 2 pm and from 3 to 7.30 pm
Duration 45'
How old do you feel today? When was the last time you thought about death? Do you think there is an expiry date to your sexuality? Talking openly and intimately about ‘Sex’ and ‘Death’ is often avoided, especially with the elderly. Internationally acclaimed for her intergenerational participatory performances, artist Samara Hersch has created a rare and unexpected encounter that puts the spectator face to face, in a private space, with an older perfect stranger, into a profound and unpredictable conversation about life’s essential questions. A unique and moving experience that invites the participants to bridge the generational divide and reflect on how time shapes each of us.
Samara Hersch is an artist and theatre director working between Europe and Australia. Her practice investigates the encounter between contemporary performance and community engagement and her research explores intimacy as a political act, imagining different modalities that can be inhabited by nonprofessional performers and the public together. Samara Hersch received the prestigious Caroline Neuber Scholarship in Leipzig in 2023 and is part of the EU Network; ACT; Art Climate Transition. She completed her Masters at DAS Theatre in Amsterdam in 2019.