| theatercombinat | 15.10. - 04.11.2008 bambiland08 urban composition in seven parts with a text by elfriede jelinek, vienna, cooperation with mak/museum für angewandte kunst, radio orange 94.0 (a) sprache/language/langue: deutsch, english, français |
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«bambiland08» manifestations, installations und space-compositions. parabolic speakers on trolleys, megaphones attached to helmets, trolleys with tv's, umpire-chairs as observation posts: tragic choruses of 12 objects each moved from schwarzenbergplatz via the donaukanal, the rennbahnweg housing estates to the aqua terra zoo in a former flakturm of vienna - and from the military exhibition at heldenplatz to the contemporary art depot of vienna's museum of applied arts, MAK. dealing with a contemporary theatre-text after antiquity, renaissance and baroque, «bambiland08» transformed the political-esthetical practice of «chorus» and opened a medial-performative investigation of public space. awarded with the «nestroy» as best independent production 2008 |
photos: lorant racz, johannes raimann
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concept/artistic direction: claudia bosse, concept collaboration: alexander schellow, gerald singer, christine standfest, speaker: anne bennent, performance/lab: «bambi total» in cooperation with ORANGE 94.0 - vienna independent radio stage rights «bambiland» by rowohlt theaterverlag, reinbek bei hamburg. |
| bambiland | bambiland. a theatre text that takes place by addressing me, us. it talks like me, like us. it produces an adverse, the listener, the central european, provoking political, medial and european cultural certainties. 2003, the 3rd gulf war. bush junior seeking revenge for his father and the lost war. concepts of the enemy, discourse strategies, technical and economical delusions of power. und we, central europeans, who are absorbing and constantly aroused by pictures and words. we, who are constantly being addressed. war report bambiland: permanently attacking, rotating, hiding, looping. hammering, addressing and questioning. no fronts, no foes. no morals. contaminated ground. contaminated perception. war not as event but as suede. «bambiland» - a chorus-monologue, arguing with me, the citizen. |
| space composition | in «bambiland», chorus becomes an infinite multiplication of a single female voice. language and language-masks from 2500 years of western european culture. parties, antagonists. speech-hostages, language-borders. a media-chorus of one single voice, superior, authoritarian. a female voice addressed as chorus-with-herself the urban surrounding, confining, expanding, transcribing it. the text, a four track recording, follows a speech-score. some passages are a crosstalk of the same voice, a chorus with oneself, some are multiplied via all sound-objects, others distributed on different object-groups. performers handle the objects in realtime. the city moves in realtime. the objects, acoustical-functional items become means of a realtime-composition of the text with the soundscape of the city. city and collapse compose with jelinek's text. |
| schwarzenbergplatz, 15.10.2008 12 parabolic speakers on trolleys 3 tv-trolleys 12 umpire-chairs 2h46min opening of the series «bambiland». surveying the political place. super-scribing of the historical ground by a mobile choreography with 15 performers, who move language and spectators. the sound-objects are manoevred in changing formations, targeting the interior or the city, they rotate, dance, spanning a permanently varying network of sound. |
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donaukanal, 18.10.08 |
| «bambiland expedition» - haus des meeres, aqua terra zoo vienna, esterházypark, 21.10.2008 12 megaphone-helmets from the roof-deck of the flakturm cordless headphones in the tropical centre PA of haus des meeres, otherwise used for announcements 6 parabolic speakers at the corners of the viewing platform 2h46 min «bambiland» as indoor biotope. artificial world. animal actors. their link: voice, text. the expedition starts in front of the former air raid defence tower, ending on top of the building. |
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«bambi's universe» - MAK gegenwartskunstdepot gefechtsturm arenbergpark, 26.10.2008 |
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«bambi total» heldenplatz and ORANGE 94.0 MHz, 26.10.2008 |
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rennbahnweg housing estates, 31.10.2008 |
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schwarzenbergplatz, 04.11.2008 observation post of 12 umpire-chairs 12 megaphone-helmets 12 parabolic speakers on trolleys 2 hares 5,5h end of the research series «bambiland08»: a choreographic setting developed out of the previous investigations, interrupted by three manifestations in different directions into the city. documentary material became part of this action on u.s. voting day with bar and projections and tv-live-reports of the u.s.-elections! the acoustical media changed from the parabolic speakers to the megaphones and back. |
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