We embark on a quest for all types of love in the forest. How to fall in love with a tree, idolise a bird, or make love to a stream? Eros awaits us – revealing all kinds of new devotions. The pristine Schwarzwald is home to many legends, myths, and fairy tales that represent livelihood and fertility. Zum Eros is a place for revised family compositions and new types of romantic relationships that pave the way for alternative ceremonies and celebrations.
The railway station serves as the terminal from which we depart and to which we arrive: the liminal space between where we are going and where we have been filled with consumerist waypoints for pulp fiction, fast coffee, and fashion accessories. Our physical journey rarely stops when we arrive as our gaze is diverted towards information boards for the next transfer as we look for connections or other modes of transport, or even simply heading out on foot heading making our way towards territories of familiar unfamiliarity, but what if the journey continued without leaving the terminus? Can we still conjure up the sense of advancement and travel while remaining fixed to the station’s specific set of geographical coordinates? The Ornamenta Gala asked its audience to take a moment to pause and reflect, using the immediate space of Pforzheim Hbf to become a window to other subjectivities that transport those that give over to the idea of going nowhere while being somewhere.
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Gala Venues: DB Station&Service AG, Vivo Bar
Food truck: La Signora,
Catering: Comedia, Vivarepas, Panificio S. Calogero, Snack Insects, Eksi’s Motivtorten
Printing: Druck+Medien Pforzheim
Banners and Fencing: Technische Dienste Stadt Pforzheim
Hair and Make-up: Friseur barbers – Stephan Hochstein & Andreas Klug GbR
Gala Backstage Venue: Schlosskeller Privatbrauerei Wilhelm Ketterer
Water Display Bad Databrunn: Bad Liebenzeller Mineralbrunnnen
Crockery: Parkhotel Pforzheim GmbH
Produktionsmanagement: Andreas Schmidt
Art handling: Richfelder
AV- Media: multi-media systeme AG
Light: David Horn
Scaffolding: dp-showtechnic GmbH & Co. KG
Fireworks:MK-Eventdesign
Gala Hosts: students and members of local organisations and youth groups (Queer Space
Pforzheim, Internationaler Beirat, HS Pforzheim, KIT Karlsruhe)
Copywriting and Translation: David Cross Kane and Merit Julia Sauter
Graphic design: OPSXD
Typefaces: Charlotte Rohde
Photograpy: Karolina Sobel, Marta Bogdanska
