A very short piece for bank directors
A very short piece for bank directors is a play and a performance by Till Nikolaus von Heiseler and Michaela Caspar . At the show were also Christian Maria Goebel and Andres Fuentes Cannobbio (cameraman), and Petra Kubinski - then known as Petra Fromm - (costume) and Achim Kubinski involved (composition).
The piece (solo opera) is about the inability to integrate trauma into life. It represents the inner world of a person (Emily).
The performance consists in staging a solo opera unannounced - and therefore illegally - in a bank. After a short time the real police appear. A game unfolds on two levels. A precise choreography , which is adapted to the respective room, stands against the direct and spontaneous interaction between the actress (Michaela Caspar) and the security staff of the financial institution and the police. In the program that the actress hands out during the performance, she thanks the “involuntary actors in uniform”. The performance usually ends with the actress being led away.
At the first performance in what was then the headquarters of Deutsche Bank on Ernst-Reuter-Platz in Berlin , the performer was carried out of the bank on the last lines of the piece.
The project was funded by the Ministry of Science, Research and Culture Brandenburg. In all cases, the respective bank withdrew the report.
criticism
Almost all of the major Berlin daily newspapers reported on the action. The daily newspaper wrote that it was a piece "about the suffering and fear of madness and the linden blossom-like boredom of sensible adaptation".
The first performance took place on April 10, 1997 in the headquarters of Deutsche Bank in Berlin. Between 1997 and 1999 there were further performances in Berlin, Potsdam and Hamburg . The performance was recorded with a hidden camera and the video was shown in the Center Pompidou , Paris , the Viper media festival , Basel and other exhibitions.
Rod
- Text, conception and management: Till Nikolaus von Heiseler
- Performance: Michaela Caspar
- Composition: Michaela Caspar and Achim Kubinski
- Costume: Petra Fromm
- Camera: Andres Fuentes Cannobbio
- 1. Gentleman in suit: Christian Maria Goebel
- 2. Gentleman in a suit: Till Nikolaus von Heiseler
- Photography: Sebastian Hoppe, Sanna Miericke
- Internet: Sophia Nabokov, mARS Agardtha, Till Nikolaus von Heiseler
Video
A very short piece for bank directors, 32 min, 2000, Germany.
Screening and exhibitions (selection)
- Info Offspring, kiosk in public space, Dresden June to August 2001
- hybrid video tracks, NGBK , Berlin September 2001
- House of World Cultures , as part of the Chaosmatic Anthropology conference. July 2003
- neuro - networking europe, Munich February 2004
- Viper (media festival), Basel November 2004
- Evolutionary cells, Karl Ernst Osthaus-Museum, Hagen December 2004 to February 2005
- Rencontres internationales Paris / Berlin , Paris, Center Pompidou , November 2005
- Pulsar, Caracas - Venezuela , October 2006
- Postmoskau, Berlin Summer 2007
literature
- A very short piece for bank directors . (Text of the play and photo documentation of the performance, description by the contributors) In: Theaterperipherien, Ed .: Hartmut Fischer, bankruptcy book no. 35, pp. 154–163, Tübingen 2001, ISBN 3-88769-235-7 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Art in the money room New Germany , April 10, 1997
- ↑ The head full of birdsong , Potsdamer Stadtkurier, December 30, 1997
- ↑ Kneeling in front of an ATM undesirable , the daily newspaper , Hamburg
- ^ Police operation ends performance , Die Welt , August 19, 1997
- ↑ Theater is everywhere . the daily newspaper , April 10, 1997, p. 27.