Bon Noir Alien
Site-specific performance, Venice Biennale preopening program, 27 min., 2011
On the vaporetto to the Biennale press conference, four classically trained singers burst into a mini-operetta of art-industry-standard small talk – performing for boarding and disembarking passengers. The score is based on transcripts of conversations that took place during the previous Biennale. Dialogues about national pavilions, Airbnb accommodations, book projects, and food are reenacted in collaged form – in the same public transport vessels which hosted many of the original conversations.
Site-specific performance, Venice Biennale preopening program, 27 min., 2011
On the vaporetto to the Biennale press conference, four classically trained singers burst into a mini-operetta of art-industry-standard small talk – performing for boarding and disembarking passengers. The score is based on transcripts of conversations that took place during the previous Biennale. Dialogues about national pavilions, Airbnb accommodations, book projects, and food are reenacted in collaged form – in the same public transport vessels which hosted many of the original conversations.
Libretto from transcripts of conversations, musical composition; singers: Laura Copiello (mezzo-soprano), Almut Kühne (soprano), Ina Viola (alto), Jeremy Woodruff (bass); musical direction and score: Jeremy Woodruff.
Commissioned by Freundeskreis der Hochschule für Künste Bremen and Verlag Moderne Kunst, Nürnberg, as part of the book launch for Look at me: Celebrity Culture at the Venice Art Biennale (2011), by Mona Schieren and Andrea Sick.
Images: Daniel Paida Larsen, © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2024, courtesy of ACTV, HfK Bremen.
