OLA NOCTURNA

Frankfurter Positionen, Frankfurt

2011

Ola Nocturna – When they didn`t know anything yet
A scenic concert

Conzept: Christian Pedro Vasquéz, Eleonora Herder & Arne Köhler
Composition: Christian Pedro Vasquéz
Video, stage and light: Eleonora Herder & Arne Köhler

"To learn to live with ghosts, in the upkeep, the conversation, the company, or the companionship, in the commerce without commerce of ghosts. To live otherwise, and better. No, not better, but more justly. But with them. […] And this being-with-the ghosts would also be - not only, but also - a politics of memory, of inheritance, and of generations."

(Jaques Derrida, 1993)

The composition "Ola nocturna - When they didn`t know anything yet" approaches the concept of no-man's-land on a temporal level.
Starting from the idea of the echo as an acoustic ghost, we try to make tangible an alternative experience of time, in which the present is always understood as a no-man's-land that is lost between times.
Thus, the present time is always an echo, a trace that points from the past to the future.
And just as music cannot exist without the memory of the instantly preceding and unavoidably evokes the past, a society cannot survive without memory.
To live in no-man's-land would mean to accept the asynchronicity of the living present with oneself, and to learn to live with the ghosts.

Venue: LAB (Festival Frankfurter Positionen 2011)
Date: 05.02 + 06.02.2011

www.frankfurterpositionen.de

„Bei Bewegung einzelner Musiker durch den Raum gewannen sie eine dreifache Präsenz: als Liebhaftige, als Schattenentwurf im Scheinwerferlicht und zusätzlich noch einmal als filmissche Projektion.“

(Elisabeth Risch: „Jenseits der Gemütlichkeit“, 08.02.2011, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung)

“Vasquéz’ Stück arbeitet raffiniert mit Projektionen, Videos und Verwirrungs-Effekten (Eleonora Herder, Arne Köhler) und gestaltet das Thema des Verschwindens in der Zeit mit klug eingesetzter Technik.”

(Hans Jürgen Linke: „Rückweg in die Mitte“, Frankfurter Rundschau, 08.02.2011)

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