COMING SOON… PROMETHEISCH CULTURE

Next theater show at Orangerie Theater, Cologne., 24th October, 2020

COMING SOON… PROMETHEISCH CULTURE – an intermedial performance with texts by Aeschylus, Marinetti, Shelley, Kafka, Brock… video-projection art Ivó Kovács (ivo3d.com), actor: Maximilian von Mühlen, voice-art Natalia Voskoboynikova, shibari performance & live – installation Boshi Nawa, directed by Kristóf Szabó, premiere: 24th October, 2020 at Orangerie Theater Cologne.

Neo-baroque I. – Deleted scene – VR (mono) version

Neo-baroque I. – Deleted scene – VR (mono) version – up to 8K
Neo-baroque I. – Deleted scene – VR (mono) version – up to 8K – youtube version

This scene was originally made for the ‘Neo-Baroque’ video-projection installation. But since it didn’t fit into the installation’s Neo-baroque topic, I decided to publish/release it as a separate file, as a 8K VR-mono video experience.

Eternity is a mental construction – that’s why it is so interesting from an artistic perspective. As we could read in the dialogs of Timaeus by Plato: ‘the time is the moving images of the eternity’. Or an other quote from Obras Completas by Jorge Luis Borges (in the essay about the story of the eternity): ‘Aeternitas est merum hodie, est inmediata et lucida fruitio rerum infinitarum’ – in a draft translation:
‘The eternity is nothing else but sheer today, direct and pure enjoyment of infinite things’.

So let’s enjoy this journey through your brain here and now!

(use your mouse/phone to rotate view and zoom in and out and push the quality gear up to higher resolution)

Johanna von Orleans

Nominiert für den Kölner Theaterpreis 2018
Kontakt: faceensemble.wordpress.com

PLOT:
Nach dem Ruf durch Gott zur Gotteskriegerin und zahlreichen grausamen Siegen verliebt sich die zarte Hirtin Johanna (Jeanne d´Arc) in der Schlacht in Lionel, den Anführer der Feinde, und kann nicht länger fühllos töten: Mit ihrer Liebe ist auch ihr Mitgefühl erwacht. Johanna verurteilt das grausame Töten und schwört Gott ab. Kaum hat sie ihre Geschichte in die Hand genommen, wird sie von Gottes Strafe in der Gestalt ihres hexengläubigen Vaters und des Todes durch den Scheiterhaufen eingeholt. Ihre Botschaft zum Schluss: “Im Gehorsam: die Fühllosigkeit | In der Freiheit: Die Liebe und das Mitgefühl”.

TEXT:
Text von F. Schiller, ergänzend G. Ungaretti, P. Celan, Dramaturgie und Ende des Stücks: Kristóf Szabó, Text erster Auftritt der Figur Talbot: Kristóf Szabó – Thomas Krutmann

TEAM
Kostüm, Stage-Set, Regie:Kristóf Szabó
Projection-Video-Art, Mapping-Art: Ivó Kovács

PERFORMERs
Theresia Erfort, Thomas Krutmann, Maximilian von Mühlen, Cornelius Engemann, Ursula Wüsthof, Céline Oberloher, Ivan Zilli, BoshiNawa

Rollen und vollständige Liste der Mitarbeiter* / Cast s. Abspann des Films.

Aufzeichnung in Köln im Orangerie Theater am 09. & 10. März 2018

Die Produktion wurde gefördert von:
Kulturamt der Stadt Köln
sowie
Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kultur des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen

Entering the utopia

Entering the utopy - Cube-head series
Entering the utopia – ‘Cube-head’ series for faceensemble.wordpress.com

Some theories, aka bla-bla-bla

Some theories, aka bla-bla…

Preface/ disclosure

First and foremost, it is said, when you start to do or make something, you should start with your motivation. When your motivation is cleared from your personal scales – your actions will not miss your target after – your action will benefit the others.
This is your sandbox, your only protection – your cleared and examined motivation.
The ‘local railway lines’ becomes uninteresting.
You will soon find yourself in the mainstream of desires, where you will need this protection and the ability to see further than your boundaries marked. You won’t miss and loose the big picture anymore, just keep the focus.

router – ‘avoid the local railway lines’, photo by ivo3d.com

When you start to write a critique (in this case about an art-form) often happens that your driving force is your anger. They say, when you think – for example in a debate – that you are right, it is actually an expression of anger. Obviously, we should avoid the feeling in any form. Actually it is not a pleasant feeling anyway.
According to the traditional Buddhist view, we could distinguish between the relative and absolute state of the truth. As a deeply concerned idealist, I suppose there is an absolute state of truth, which comes from the understanding the nature of the mind, while the relative truth is the understanding how nature works, e.g. understanding the phenomenons in the world. This idea somewhat correlates with the European tradition, which was built upon the ancient Greek tradition (Plato, Socrates, Aristotle), restarted with the renaissance and fully blossomed in the enlightenment movement.
I was built upon these traditions, on the same time I am aware, that we are living in a post-modern, a post-truth world, where facts have become opinions, truth is just the question of the rhetoric and money, propaganda was renamed to marketing, art validated by its market value, businessman have lost their numbers but got instead visions and the public opinion has become the irreplaceable, unquestionable God.
What’s more, we are going to cement these patterns with the machine learning methods for the prolonged and already saved future. The system of the uncertainty was balanced finally.
This landscape is going to be quite frightening.

‘Punny humans feels there is something missing…’

And then, a sudden flash:
Covid-19

At least we have found something in common in us.

It is time to get back our culture, this will save us e.g. through the (healthcare) science first, then the rest, the Republic, Rule of law, our cultural heritage and Art.
Nature also got a breath for a moment, hopefully it won’t be our last too.

Take this time for educating yourself, we will need to get your brain back, a bit rewired:)

to be continued..