Michael Bekele

The Masked I

Person sitting on a table covered with a white cloth. Around the head of the person is a big purple flower made out of paper. There is a blue recorder and microphone made for children sitting on the persons lap.

Photo: Michael Bekele

Fr 13.6.2025, 19:30-20:00, MDT - Studio 1

The performance is an excursion into what it means to be a masked self.


By using different masks, poetry and the body itself we embark on this cosmic journey which is in part pseudo-academic, philosophical, poetic and comical excursion. It is the unlikely tale of Heron, the gifted, who solved the problem of black body physics together with Max Planck in 1914 and thereby created the field of quantum mechanics. During their intense collaboration a secret love affair developed between the two physicists. But, oh to be human, Heron died of a broken heart and now rests somewhere amongst the stars.

Michael Bekele

Michael S. Bekele (1988) is a writer, director and artist with desks both in Berlin and Stockholm. His practice is concerned with embodied language. Moreover he is active as the chairperson of Black Archives Sweden in Malmö and the co-founder of Munnen in Stockholm.

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