AD SZ ED SC █ Caliban und die Säufer Nic Rauch Projektseminar »STURMapparate« / Project seminar “STURMapparate” von / by Wehrli /Kollmann 36 Prof. Beatrix von Pilgrim Prof. Penelope Wehrli 37 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 <strong>Karlsruhe</strong> 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 <strong>HfG</strong> Annual Exhibition SOMMERLOCH in July 2009. The events, occurring simultaneously on two space stages, one in <strong>Karlsruhe</strong> 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”. AD SZ ED SC █ Die Figuren aus <strong>Karlsruhe</strong> / The <strong>Karlsruhe</strong> figures Projektseminar »Blind Date« von / Project seminar “Blind Date” by Pilgrim / Kollmann / Gerkan/ Peters /Sack
38 39 █ Die Figuren aus <strong>Karlsruhe</strong> / The <strong>Karlsruhe</strong> figures Projektseminar »Blind Date« von / Project seminar “Blind Date” by Pilgrim / Kollmann / Gerkan/ Peters /Sack