Chris Ziegler: “forest 2 – another midsummer night’s dream”
02 - 06 Sep 2009
Theater installation at the ZKM_Media Theater,
During museum opening hours, free admission
Live interventions on Sat 05 Sept and Sun 06 Sept
Chris Ziegler, an artist affiliated with the ZKM, presents his latest theater work “forest 2” as an interactive theater installation.
“forest 2,” which is based on Shakespeare’s drama “A Midsummer Night‘s Dream” and Ovid’s »Metamorphoses,« plays with the complex elements of its literary origins. The text written by Michael Hewel weaves together the three motifs of love, art, and death and ties them to the theme of the forest. An extensive installation, which in conjunction with the music by Torsten Brandes and the Ensemble für Neue Musik Schloss Hamborn as well as a specific movement, light, and picture architecture, creates an unusual association space in which the forest appears as a site of myths and fairytales, fears and dreams. The audience is invited to explore these different spaces with Puck (Friederike Plafki).
Concept, director: Chris Ziegler
Text: Michael Hewel
Composition: Torsten Brandes
Music: Ensemble für Neue Musik Schloss Hamborn
Sounds: Alexandre Decoupigny
Programming: Martin Bellardi
Oberon / acting: Jens Kipper
Titania / song: Ute Merz / Steffi Fischer
Puck / dance: Friederike Plafki
Supported by the Landesverband Freier Theater Baden-Württemberg (LAFT)
“TanzMedia interaktiv,” a workshop with Christian Ziegler, Katja Batzler (medien+bildung.com), and Nadja Winterstein (dance instructor) will take place from 06–08 July 09 and 10–12 September 09,
Registration under: workshops@zkm.de
Further information: www.movingimages.de
During museum opening hours, free admission
Live interventions on Sat 05 Sept and Sun 06 Sept
Chris Ziegler, an artist affiliated with the ZKM, presents his latest theater work “forest 2” as an interactive theater installation.
“forest 2,” which is based on Shakespeare’s drama “A Midsummer Night‘s Dream” and Ovid’s »Metamorphoses,« plays with the complex elements of its literary origins. The text written by Michael Hewel weaves together the three motifs of love, art, and death and ties them to the theme of the forest. An extensive installation, which in conjunction with the music by Torsten Brandes and the Ensemble für Neue Musik Schloss Hamborn as well as a specific movement, light, and picture architecture, creates an unusual association space in which the forest appears as a site of myths and fairytales, fears and dreams. The audience is invited to explore these different spaces with Puck (Friederike Plafki).
Concept, director: Chris Ziegler
Text: Michael Hewel
Composition: Torsten Brandes
Music: Ensemble für Neue Musik Schloss Hamborn
Sounds: Alexandre Decoupigny
Programming: Martin Bellardi
Oberon / acting: Jens Kipper
Titania / song: Ute Merz / Steffi Fischer
Puck / dance: Friederike Plafki
Supported by the Landesverband Freier Theater Baden-Württemberg (LAFT)
“TanzMedia interaktiv,” a workshop with Christian Ziegler, Katja Batzler (medien+bildung.com), and Nadja Winterstein (dance instructor) will take place from 06–08 July 09 and 10–12 September 09,
Registration under: workshops@zkm.de
Further information: www.movingimages.de