Eleonore Khuen-Belasi

The world has no right to bore the nymph Callisto like this. Always she has to do everything with the others. Always decorating. Always in chorus. Always uniform. And always waiting together for Artemis. She prefers to wait alone in the forest for her hunting goddess. And is happy when she comes and caresses her. But today Artemis feels quite different. Her hands are not so cool and smooth, but hot and sweaty. No wonder, they belong to Zeus, who thought to let off lustful steam with Callisto in Artemis' body. This does not frighten the beautiful nymph. For she also wants something, and that is variety. Zeus comes just in time for her. So she confidently takes from him what she wants: sex. But even with her self-determination she still can't escape the eternal transformation into a bear. Although the reason is now no longer revenge, but far more banal. Artemis gives Callisto a different shape while playing hide-and-seek and then simply forgets what she turned her into. And finally, who she is actually looking for.

Eleonore Khuen-Belasi has turned the myth of Callisto and Zeus upside down with her comedy Heaven and Brains. In her work, women are no longer victims, Zeus is emasculated, the community of nymphs is a crazy teatime mob and Artemis is extremely unreliable. The tragic is no longer tragic, it simply doesn't matter. There is no longer a context that points beyond the individual. For all the emancipation, the big picture is forgotten altogether. And the gods sit in holes in the earth and wait.