MEMENTO MORI*

Choir | Medieval and contemporary music | Participatory concert |

INTERAKT presents "Memento Mori" (from Latin: "Remember Death"), an extraordinary participatory concert-mystery with a citizens' choir and professional musicians at the Prague Cemetery in Stuttgart on All Saints' Day. The project explores the development of our perception of death through the language of music, focusing on music from the Middle Ages and the present day. In addition to traditional and liturgical death dance songs from the 11th to 16th centuries and excerpts from Hildegard von Bingen's "Ordo Virtutum", original medieval songs from Italy, England, Spain and the Netherlands will be presented. The audience can also look forward to the world premiere of a contemporary work by multimedia composer Remmy Canedo, which deals with the burial rituals of the indigenous Selk'nam people from Chile, who died out in 1980. Even if the project does not offer an emotional processing of grief, it nevertheless creates space for reflection and new insights into the understanding of death as an integral part of life. At the same time, it invites us to celebrate life itself.