THE LOST ONES
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Installative Concert Performance (Performance / Musicians / Live-Video / Live Electronics) The lost ones is an installative concert performance, a hybrid of music / sound / movement / video and tries an aesthetic transposition of a short prose text by Samuel Beckett (1970, orig. Le dépeupleur, dt. Der Verwaiser or in the English translation The lost ones). In this short prose text, "the narrator" describes a dystopian social space, the barren interior of a cone, filled with busy, ambitious but also rigid "bodies", with clear rules and hierarchical processes - one could very simply speak of an allegory that shows in a strong condensed and abstract form the absurdity of a late (post-) capitalist world. Descriptively, Beckett developed a social structure of end-time bodies, which are resigned or driven, determined by myths or religious / metaphysical ideas, looking for a mode of transgression, eliminating the need to carry on without meaning. One could also think about a step out of the constraints of a growth economy - conjured up as a natural law. Starting from a performer on the floor who physically expresses the situational conditions of the text, a virtual image tableau is gradually developed, full of body-stories from Beckett's cone. First performance March 27, 2020 / Aspekte Festival Salzburg 2020 |
Artists Marco Döttlinger Idea / Composition / Live Electronics http://www.doettlinger.org Patrik Lechner Live Video (Programming) http://patriklechner.tumblr.com/ Donald Beteille Performance / Choreography Markus Grüner-Musil Direction NAMES - New Art and Music Ensemble Salzburg Duration: about 30 minutes 
Vergil | Dante | Belaqua
unknown calligrapher (14th c.)
As Vergil leads Dante up the steep slope of the lower mountain, they hear the ironic voice of Belaqua nearby:
(Dante Alighieri: Devine Comedy, Purgatorio 4.98-99) Forse, che di sedere in pria avrai distretta! Perhaps you will be obliged to sit before then! |