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█ Caliban und die Säufer
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Projektseminar
»STURMapparate« /
Project seminar
“STURMapparate”
von / by Wehrli /Kollmann
36 Prof. Beatrix von Pilgrim
Prof. Penelope Wehrli
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In the fall semester 2008/09 under the title “Movement/Baroque,” we analyzed the hybrid
medium. We began the semester with a field trip to Northern Italy, where we studied historic
theater buildings and structures from the Roman arena to the banquet halls and ballrooms
of the Renaissance and Early Baroque, and the first chariot-and-pole-systems with central
perspective in Baroque.
The starting point for the upper-division seminar “STURMapparate” [TEMPESTapparatuses]
(Wehrli/Kollmann) was “The Tempest” by Shakespeare. Single scenes were filtered out from
the play, and for each one, an apparatus or a moving sequence was developed. Object, movement,
light and sound were used as the central means and composed into a timeline. The students
constructed twelve sequences of events that were then fit together into a joint scenic
score, a multi-track scenographic production in which the visitors could move around freely.
The production was invited to the Bauhaus festival “Crash Boom Bau” in Jena, and performed
there in May 2009.
The upper-division seminar “Short Cuts” (Pilgrim/Burger) and its scenic productions revolved
around the short stories of Raymond Carver. It explored movement as a combination of the
perception of time and the experience of space. The object of the scenic analysis was the moment
of change – for example, in the course of a catastrophic event.
The two seminars were complemented by seven lectures and three workshops, held by artists
and researchers whose research and scenographic productions were closely connected to the
questions surrounding “Movement/Baroque”. Lectures were given by Romeo Castellucci, Heiner
Goebbels, Eva Meyer-Hermann, Chris Kondek, Jörg Laue, Berthold Schneider, and Pablo
Ventura. Workshops were held by Prof. Friedemann Kreuder, Xavier LeRoy, and Anja Rabes.
Szenografie / Scenography
The topic for the spring semester 2009 was “Body/Movement/Play.” A seminar entitled “Blind
Date” was conducted (Pilgrim/Kollmann/Gerkan/Peters/Sack) in cooperation with the costume-designing
class of the UdK Berlin,.The seminar was flanked by six lectures and workshops
in Berlin and Karlsruhe by Miriam Dreysse, Lilot Hegi, Annemarie Matzke/She She
Pop, Bettina Milz, and Chris Ziegler, pictoplasma as well Florentine Sack. “Blind Date“ had
been designed as a game for groups of players in two different cities. Through texts sent by
e-mail, the players in one city tried to guide the players in the other city in developing a specific
character. Figures from engravings by Max Ernst served as visual templates. The seminar
evolved around the following questions: Is it possible to develop a figure via long distance
only through descriptions of its essence and nature? Can you stage a production based
on the anticipation of a virtual meeting with a projected character? And also: Which forms
of staging could make such a meeting “real”? The “virtual/real” meeting of the respective
pairs of characters, that is, the “Blind Date,” took place during the HfG Annual Exhibition
SOMMERLOCH in July 2009. The events, occurring simultaneously on two space stages, one
in Karlsruhe and one in Berlin, were mutually transmitted via Internet and projected onto
big screens.
The kick-off for the meta-topic, “Construction and Constructability of Reality,” was the team
project “105” for the Annual Exhibition SOMMERLOCH’09. The complete “configuration” of
the facilities of the scenography studio on the 2nd floor, including any objects in it, was systematically
dismantled and then accurately recreated on the 1st floor, down to the last detail.
The floor area used corresponded exactly to the studio area without its walls. The precise deconstruction
and reconstruction of this space turned the “real space” into a construction, a
tangible, walk-in image of the original “reality”.
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█ Die Figuren aus
Karlsruhe / The
Karlsruhe figures
Projektseminar »Blind
Date« von / Project
seminar “Blind Date” by
Pilgrim / Kollmann /
Gerkan/ Peters /Sack