Brakke Grond Rode zaal, 20.30 uur
€ 14 / 10,50
tags: performance
Starting at Aby Warburg's Mnemosyne, Annis uses the art historian's theories and methods to develope her own performative atlas investigating the hidden survival of ancient memories in today's world. Together with the dramaturg and performer Antonia Baehr and the musician and composer Nicholas Bussmann she investigates the concept of the body as archive for memories (personal, collective and cultural) and the iconic body gestures (Pathosformulas) which recurr again and again through the ages.
The reknowned art historian and theoretician Aby Warburg was born in 1866 as the first son and heir to an influential Jewish banking family in Hamburg, Germany.
In 1904 Aby Warburg founded the archive and library, the "Kulturwissenschaftliche Bibliothek Warburg". With his research into recurring images and forms, he founded the modern science of iconography. From 1924 until his death in 1929, Warburg worked on his Mnemosyne Atlas, in which he analysed the continuing presence of ancient culture in the iconic gesture language and image memory of European civilisation. Warburg took photographs of images, reproductions from books and visual materials from newspapers and/or daily life and attached them on wooden panels covered with black cloth, arranging them in such a way that they illustrated one or several thematic ideas. The perpetual metamorphosis of the panels was intentional and only halted by Warburg's death in 1929.
In Warburg's Memo the panels will be the basis of staged panel-works (Bildtafel-Stücke). Expanded into life, they will be translated from the visual into the verbal, gestural and performative form. The panels give forth the structure and development of the evening. The audience is invited into this exhibition space-turned-to-performance space, placing them in an environment of lecture, performance, music and image. They experience the optimal proximity and inclusion; they are part of this ever-changing memory-space. The Figure of Aby Warburg will also be remembered; his studies, his life, his death.
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