Buridan's donkey is a joke against all the tasty haystacks we will have to choose between.
All the catching up, rescheduling, redesigning while at the same time anxiously looking at rising corona numbers and possible new restrictions means that art is currently practically only concentrated.
If you are wondering why so many events have recently taken place in the early evening, around 6 p.m., this is super practical for those who suffer from the haystack syndrome.
For example, they can take a lecture at 6 p.m., a concert at 8 p.m. and then a late night screening in the cinema.
One can almost be glad that the big theaters do not show their first premieres until the middle of September. Otherwise we would know even less where to go first, especially on weekends. At the start of the season for the Frankfurt galleries? At the opening of the literary days in Wiesbaden - and from there, preferably quickly to the drive-in cinema of the Go East Festival, which had to be canceled in April? Then over the Rhine bridge to the Mainz art gallery, where graduates exhibit?
On the weekend, the Nigerian artist Emeka Ogboh will come to Frankfurt from his adopted home Berlin, where his choir installation in the urban space and on the Main will be accompanied by artist talks and barbecue parties. “This Too Shall Pass” is the name of the sound installation. The fact that everything will pass again is not only comforting in Corona times. It also warns: Pick the day. And the night.