Welcome to a living room that turns into a smouldering scene of remembering and forgetting. Here, between a grandmother suffering from Alzheimer’s disease and her daughter, worlds collide: an interplay of anger, sadness, despair and disorientation. What remains when memories fade and the past becomes an unreliable companion?

»Damage Done« takes the audience on a journey through the fragility of memory and the construction of identity in a world that wants to save everything. The starting point is private video recordings from the family archive that were never intended for the public. But it is precisely this intimate closeness that challenges us to pause and ask questions: What does this material show – and what does it do to us who view it?

Through a collaborative process, the recordings are dissected, reinterpreted and translated into images, movements and dialogues. Alternative forms of communication emerge, transforming the stage into a multi-perspective space in which remembering and forgetting are negotiated in equal measure.

Tobias Yves Zintel (1975, Passau) studied conceptual art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. In his works he combines methods of experimental film, theatre staging, music and installation art. Zintel consciously crosses the boundaries between fact and fiction, document and fragment, and examines questions of subject constitution as well as rituals, knowledge and belief systems that characterise identity.