Escaping Heldenplatz (UA)
Mixed Reality Experience
Nach Thomas Bernhard
KGI – Büro für nicht übertragbare Angelegenheiten, Köln
In his last play, Thomas Bernhard used the story of a Jewish family in Vienna to examine the extent of anti-Semitism in 1988. The premiere at the Burgtheater became the biggest theater scandal after '45 and could only take place under police protection due to calls for a boycott, physical attacks and death threats. In KGI's interpretation of "Heldenplatz," the audience embarks on a search for traces of the scandal and of the anti-Semitism
of today: what happens when we dare to look into the abyss of the past?
By means of VR glasses, the spectator:inside is transported into a nightmare of the unconscious that attempts to look behind the polished facades of the seemingly undamaged culture industry. A rapturous odyssey between VR and theater, guilt and the unconscious, past and present begins.
Funded by: Ministerium für Kultur und Wissenschaft des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen im Rahmen von NEUE WEGE in Zusammenarbeit mit dem NRW KULTURsekretariat.
Information
17. & 18. January Lichthof Hamburg
Duration
ca. 50 minutes
Location
NEXT LEVEL – Festival für Games, interaktive Kunst und digitales Theater
Speicherstr. 17
44147 Dortmund
Cast
- Arthur Romanowski
- Mike Vojnar
- Johnny Mhanna
Team
- Maria Vogt
concept/text, direction/dramaturgy - Simon Kubisch
concept/text, direction/dramaturgy - Dominik Meder
concept/text, direction/dramaturgy, AI Animations - Marcel Nascimento
Video - Sara Sabri
Production - Alexander Bauer
XR-Design - Markus Wagner
XR-Design - Ben Fischer
XR-Design
Introduction Escaping Heldenplatz (UA)
A conversation with Dominik Meder, Simon Kubisch, Maria Vogt and Sara Sabri from KGI.
- CBplayer 1.7.0
Voices
Deutschlandfunk Kultur FAZIT, Dotothea Marcus
"The VR installation [...] is of the highest artistic quality. [...] This spinning through space and time and the fact that these continuities of anti-Semitism exist are masterfully brought together here"
"It is simply breathtaking and almost spooky how the production tells [the newly awakening anti-Semitism]"