COMPOSES

PARK

duration:50'
year:2012
instrumentation:e-gtr quartet, live-electronics, performers, scenography
FIRST PERFORMANCE
date:17/07/2012
place:Frankfurter Lab, Frankfurt, Germany
performers:Zwerm, Stefan Prins, Shila Anaraki
commissioned by: IMD Darmstadt Ferienkurse
coproducers: deSingel, ChampdAction, Workspace Brussels
support: wp Zimmer, Pianofabriek, Cohort, Flemish Community

Program notes

Think of a body in stand-by, a short-circuited thought, a human brain processing at a frequency of 5 GHz...

In PARK, six computers form a communication network that provides six performers with real-time instructions. PARK confronts the human body with a digital logic. It plays with the border of the human's presence and absence in technology and embodies a puzzle in which they outline each other. With playful precision we investigate strategies of embracing, resisting, adapting, disrupting or short-circuiting these technical surroundings. Who infiltrates what, and what infiltrates whom? PARK inhabits a peculiar network, which sputters in a much outmoded way.

For PARK, Stefan Prins asked Shila Anaraki to create a performance based on his composition 'Infiltrationen', for 4 electric guitars and a live-electronics performer.  Central to this composition is the notion of technology infiltrating the conditio humana on several levels.

Credits: Park is a project by Shila Anaraki / based on a composition by Stefan Prins / music: Stefan Prins & Zwerm / developed in dialogue with Adva Zakai / performance and development: Shila Anaraki, Stefan Prins & Zwerm (Toon Callier, Bruno Nelissen, Kobe Van Cauwenberghe, Johannes Westendorp) / Scenography": Siomn Siegmann / dramaturgical advise: Lars Kwakkenbos / sound: Roel Das (ChampdAction)

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