MEDEA.chor 2022
Intercultural Online Installation

"The name means what it means. Me. Nothing else." – Dea Loher, Manhattan Medea. Medea is often portrayed as a stereotype of the ‘evil woman’—brutal, bloodthirsty, and vengeful. MEDEA.chor deconstructs this myth and sets out in search of the Medea hidden between the lines. Through interviews with more than 30 migrant women, a polyphonic composition of voices emerges, situated between myth and contemporary reality. It becomes a collective search for a core narrative—if such a narrative exists—and, above all, for Medea’s voice. Over time, Medea has been assigned many identities, which together form an image that is sometimes beautiful, sometimes unsettling.

The installation consists of interviews with around 30 women who migrated themselves, who speak about their homeland, their journeys, and their lives in a new country. From this material, an interactive video installation was developed, in which visitors can make choices from multiple options. Depending on these decisions, the narrative unfolds in different ways.

This project marked the beginning of my engagement with digital and interactive formats. Although my professional focus later shifted back mainly to theatre, the creative freedom and expressive potential of digital media have stayed with me ever since. I now wish to consciously continue along this path—experimenting, combining, crossing boundaries, and exploring new forms of expression between performative spaces and digital media.

A production by Prunk&Plaste in collaboration with Werkstattmacher e.V. and LOFFT – DAS THEATER. Funded by the City of Leipzig, Department of Cultural Affairs.