The Opera in Dresden
This Thursday in Dresden see's the premiere of our new work, The Opera.
Created over the past twelve months The Opera is a digital video work which unites footage drawn from global media channels with digital avatars produced by the United States' military. In the resulting work a chorus of animated soldiers sing their threats and statements to similarly animated civilians. Thus we have phrases like “Do not move or the American solider will kill you” or “We are not here to harm anyone” sung in Chinese, Dari, Farsi, French, Korean, Pashto, Russian, Spanish, Urdu. Using melodic structures drawn from the spoken texts we've composed a musical score as the framework for an ‘operatic’ narrative, a simple story about a man who gets arrested and interrogated by an occupying military force. The Opera is being premiered as part of "Krtische Masse", curated by Jule Reuter, at OKTOGON galleries, Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Dresden.
The opening is this Thursday, 20 October 2011 from 19:00 - 21:00
Participating artists are Ulf Aminde, bankleer, Yael Bartana, Peggy Buth, Nick Crowe & Ian Rawlinson, Lutz Dammbeck, Ingo Gerken, Paule Hammer, annette hollywood, Sven Johne, Antonia Low and Marina Naprushkina.
Created over the past twelve months The Opera is a digital video work which unites footage drawn from global media channels with digital avatars produced by the United States' military. In the resulting work a chorus of animated soldiers sing their threats and statements to similarly animated civilians. Thus we have phrases like “Do not move or the American solider will kill you” or “We are not here to harm anyone” sung in Chinese, Dari, Farsi, French, Korean, Pashto, Russian, Spanish, Urdu. Using melodic structures drawn from the spoken texts we've composed a musical score as the framework for an ‘operatic’ narrative, a simple story about a man who gets arrested and interrogated by an occupying military force. The Opera is being premiered as part of "Krtische Masse", curated by Jule Reuter, at OKTOGON galleries, Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Dresden.
The opening is this Thursday, 20 October 2011 from 19:00 - 21:00
Participating artists are Ulf Aminde, bankleer, Yael Bartana, Peggy Buth, Nick Crowe & Ian Rawlinson, Lutz Dammbeck, Ingo Gerken, Paule Hammer, annette hollywood, Sven Johne, Antonia Low and Marina Naprushkina.