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eruzione d'arte a Stromboli - temporary works 17 III 05
VANITA VULCANISSIMA © work JANNA WÄCHTER photography BILLIE 2005Parallel to the opening of the exhibition, designed like a gallery tour, at 17.III.2005 within five hours seven performances were happening to the theme Synthesis of Human and Volcano and Art. The documentation of performances is impossible. As a attempt it is allowed to medialized the artistic intension. As a fragment only which depends on the authors selection out of both, available and accessable visual and written information.

How should the troubles of each visitor be shown, stabilizing the burning candle, each of them had gotten at the opening? Or how with increasing heat a lava like wax river were running into the room, crashing and melting into other candles, finally cooling down into rigid plates? Or how should be represented, what every nongermanunderstanding visitor had understood, when theater director Hannelene Limpach read out of the corner to the ones, who were passing by? Or what did specially strombolian citizens felt, when they saw the dancer and video artist Sonja Romeis in the Petit Louvre, installed by Catherine Lalvey and Eleonora Rossi Bussola, as a diva on the church bed? How she were staring permanently at the tv, which only Channel was the Volchannel, apparently compelling, that out of the transmission-free-snowing of the lower half of the monitor, the bubbling tv-magma, out of the above floating Stromboli soon the eruption of a movie with Ingrid Bergmann and Anna Magnani will happen at the same time. And less than 200 meters away the dancer Kathrin Schumann were following these impressions in Giardino di Tano Russo with a viscous winding glowing rotating vertical installation. And why let she sang a dicky-bird for the whole time to that?

And what feelings were triggered, when on the highest point inside the bookstore Libreria Sull'Isola due to the concept of Kain Karawahn the american opera performer Janna Waechter had to light an italian book on World War II and began suddenly to sing out of it? With the singing book in one hand she had both, text to sing and light to read the words of course - she could sing only, what she was able to catch coincidently, because it burned away in the next moment - that way fragments of italian sentences destilled themselves, becoming the real text of Wächter's improvisations - while singing further on her way out of the bookstore into the dark garden it was safe for her to walk only there where her book lamp lit the direction naturally - as long as she had reached more light spending books ... the temporary installation "title eruptions" of Karawahn were made of four books. Each book was stabilized spreadly on its hardcover rims with their long parts upside down. Shaped like volcanos flames and glow could be seen on all spines, had produced little craters in some of them ...

Only a short time after spectators saw Janna Waechter once again. Disguised as a beggar in front of the church which everybody was entering to listen to her 45 minutes lasting impressing solo performance directly in front of the altar. She was transformed into the queen of all cleaning women, singing a magmatic repertoire from Opera to Gospel and Blues to short story improvisations made up from german, italian and english words thrown in from the audience. It was not only Don Antonio alone who was highly euphorized by her concert-performance.

But what is an opening on a volcano without dancing on the volcano? Since during the whole long night of culture everybody could take delicious specialties of the sicilian Nature Preservation Parc Nebrodi, the photographer and DJane Mona Filz together with the strombolian DJ Sebastiano were celebrating the final physical ecstasy of the visitors with Bocca Beats on the balcony of the Canonica ...

EMBRACED EMBERS © work KATHRIN SCHUMANN photography JÖRN RENFORDT 2005

VANITA VULCANISSIMA © work JANNA WÄCHTER photography BILLIE 2005

untitled © work SONJA ROMEIS photography ANTONIO D'AMICO 2005

EMBRACED EMBERS © work KATHRIN SCHUMANN photography JÖRN RENFORDT 2005

VANITA VULCANISSIMA © work JANNA WÄCHTER photography BILLIE 2005

untitled © work SONJA ROMEIS photography ANTONIO D'AMICO 2005

The dramaturgy of the images follows approximately the chronicle of the occurencies. At this point we would like to thank all the people, who offered their photos for this documentation. Without their efforts, nothing, but a black hole could be published here. For further information and biographic notes of the involved artists - conception - programme & organization - sponsors of eruzione d'arte a Stromboli

author: Karawahn
translation: Kathrin Schumann & Karawahn
art director: Karawahn

Karawahn

Limpach

Romeis

Schumann

Karawahn & Wächter

Wächter

Filz & Sebastiano



 
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