Artistic strategies for multi-layered narratives

While Marco Canale worked with senior citizens from Hannover for months on Die Geschwindigkeit des Lichts, Mats Staub invited people from Hannover for a conversation about births and deaths. Both pieces give the participants’ own stories space. What strategies do the artists use? What role do the individual biographies play? What does their work tell us about Hannover? 

Mats Staub, artist Death and Birth in My Life and Marco Canale, director of Die Geschwindigkeit des Lichts, in conversation with Lidia Becker, Professor for Romance Languages/Spanish Studies and Marta Estévez Grossi, research assistant at the Romance Seminar at the Leibniz University, Hannover