das morton feldman projekt (part 1 & 2)

Artistic direction, concept: sabine glenz. dramaturgy: matthias quabbe

Music: „String Quartet No.2“ from Morton Feldman. Live-Interpretation: Stringquartet des Ensemble Resonanz (part 1 Gregor Dierck, Frédérique Gulikers, Lea Tessmann, Tim-Erik Winzer. part 2 Gregor Dierck, Frédérique Gulikers, Lea Tessmann, Nikolaus Schlierf)

projection: film “farbfelder” (5h) Franz Kastner, Alejandro Valbuena

Part 1 with Viktor Braun, Jonathan Bringert, Marcelo Doño, Sara Ezzell, Clàudia parés, Angela Kecinski, Fernanda Ortiz, Larissa Potapov

Part 2 with sara Ezzell, Clàudia parés, Angela Kecinski, Fernanda Ortiz, Larissa Potapov

2021, 2022
performance

With the Morton Feldman Project, Sabine Glenz continues her exploration of influential modernist composers. In her latest project, she develops an open choreographic structure for a long-duration performance set to Morton Feldman’s String Quartet No. 2 (duration: 5 hours).
The performance took place in December 2021 at the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe in Hamburg and was filmed from within the performance space using a rotating camera. Visitors were able to move freely throughout the rooms, thus becoming part of the recording. As a result, the recording is an essential component of the sound-space-image-dance installation currently being created in the large hall at WIESE.
The transformation of the live performance into a multimedia installation and the juxtaposition of the digital and the real lead to an intimate intertwining of various aspects of sound, body, space, and time, adding another subtle layer to them as the present and the past mirror one another just as digital and analog manifestations do. The walk-through installation, with its live interventions, is an invitation to experience time as an almost infinitely extended moment, as a shared spatial and physical movement.

Source: Wiese EG, about Das Morton Feldman-Projekt, 2022

Part 1 In cooperation with the Museum für Kunst & Gewerbe and the Ensemble Resonanz. Funded by the Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg, Behörde für Kultur und Medien, Hamburgische Kulturstiftung and Rudolf Augstein Stiftung. Special thanks to Wiese e.G.

Part 2 Funded by the NATIONALE PERFORMANCE NETZ – STEPPING OUT, the Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien from the initiative NEUSTART KULTUR. Hilfsprogramm Tanz. In cooperation with Wiese e.G. and the Ensemble Resonanz.