“AND ALL THE QUESTIONMARKS STARTED TO SING” is a composition in the form of a hybrid between installation, performance and concert. It might be described as an art-machine played by musicians, performers and robots.
Many artists of different backgrounds have left their prints on this work. Ensuring a multitude of ideas threatening to tear the work apart, artistic magnitude and in consequence an articulation of the composition. The elements are tied together by kinship, proximity, simultaneity and the belief that differing materials appear as a well moulded whole under the composition.
By treating the whole room and everything in it as the material, the group has created a vast intermedial composition where visual art, sound art and music are combined with the theatrical potential in our material.
The work also demonstrates the deep fascination Verdensteatret has for all kinds of animation – this strange and somewhat miraculous activity of breading life into dead objects, stiff figures and frozen images. As a spectator you witness the actual creation of moving images at several levels.
A dive into the core of the physical building of images, down to where the image arises, takes on solid form, twists and winds into constellations and compounded images.
Physically the work appears as a landscape of highly original kinetic sculptures, that activate a diversity of animation techniques, micro puppetry, music, lights and shadowplay. All objects produce art and are also a part in it. The idea of simultaneous perspectives and multiple functions tied to each object creates a work of works. A conglomerate of connections across media and layers. Some obvious, planned and controlled. Others seen by the single spectator only, weaving her story, from available threads.
This landscape of kinetic sculptures creates a room in constant transformation. A room with violent shifts between micro and macro perspectives. From the grand to the miniscule. Each component available as a separate cosmos, an opening for a miniature suspended inside the grand piece.
About VERDENSTEATRET
VERDENSTEATRET are artists from different art-fields who work together and make live-art and other art-related projects. They endeavour to use a collaborative process to deeply integrate different artistic disciplines into projects that bridge the gap between artistic boarders. Characteristic for their work is that they are building exquisite links between seemingly incompatible technologies and materials. The experimental use of audiovisual technology in a close dialogue with more traditional and historic tools of artistic expression results in complex orchestral works or space-related musical compositions.
Seeing the sound, listening to the images
In 2005 they received the Bessie Award in New York in the category ”Performance, Installation and New Media”.
Their works are presented widely international in different art contexts and locations, such as art galleries, contemporary music festivals and theatres. They have developed a unique and complex audiovisual style, where sound spaces mingle with sculptural scenography and stories of the fragile human soul.
They say that their activity now has become a ”telling orchestra” that performs compositions in the “movable room genre”. Established notions of form or style about “performance” are more or less useless for these peculiarly captivating works of art.
Place:
Center of Herzliya. Corner of Sokolov and HaNadiv st.
Opening hours:
Thu 13 Oct. 8 – 11 pm: Installation. 9 pm: Performance
Fri 14 Oct. (closed)
Sat 15 Oct: 6 – 11 pm: Installation. 7 and 9 pm: Performance
Sun 16 Oct. 6 – 11 pm: Installation. 7 and 9 pm: Performance
Mon 17 Oct. 6 – 11 pm: Installation. 7 and 9 pm: Performance
Tue 18 Oct. 6 – 8 pm: Installation. 7 pm: Performance