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An Installative Concert by Tilman Kanitz and Sebastian Blasius
Concentric circles of chairs, a cellist, voices and cryptic sounds from loudspeakers evoking at times dissonant, absurd, and enigmatic images. In recent years, we have increasingly been shaped by the experience of how our Western self-understanding is crumbling—many had not anticipated the scale of the pandemic or the war in Ukraine. Perhaps we must learn a new form of perception in order to anticipate the unknown?
The installative concert under the ice, created by the artist and curator Tilman Kanitz and the director Sebastian Blasius, explores the relationship between what exists and its erosion. The foundation of the work includes an electronically slowed-down Sarabande for solo cello by Johann Sebastian Bach, as well as poetry by early Expressionist Georg Heym. The piece invites the audience to reflect on our present—and beyond—through processes of imagination and association.
Directed by: Tilman Kanitz, Sebastian Blasius
Music and sound design by: Tilman Kanitz
Voices by: Mélanie Fouché, Ernstalbrecht Stiebler, Sigal Zouk
Press quote by Rheinische Post: “These are confusing, icily cold, and often painful worlds of imagery that Blasius and Kanitz pick up on and literally bring to sound, (…) until only a single word remains—until even that word loses its meaning through constant repetition and dissolves into pure sound. In this way, the audience becomes witness to erosion; they experience disintegration, decay, and loss in their own listening experience. (…) Toward the end, as the words forget and skin have taken root, (…) cello sounds overpower the noise from the speakers, (…) bringing everything heard and experienced together into a fascinating whole.”
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