Venue:Gewandhaus zu Leipzig
Augustusplatz 8
04109 Leipzig
www.gewandhausorchester.de
Through performances and spaces of interaction, the Class for Performative Arts at the HGB Leipzig explores political participation and public presence. The starting point was a reflection on neutrality as a fiction and democracy as an open group process that challenges us emotionally. The ‘score’ opened up a space of possibility here for temporarily formulating our own rules, in the sense of game instructions, which give rise not only to musical performances but also to social encounters. At the heart of the semester project, which resulted in both solo and group works, lies the choir as a living space for relationships: a polyphonic structure that at times asserts a collective voice, and at other times invites communication. In various experimental and conceptual ways, the participating artists explore the voice as a mediator between the inner and the outer, the body and language, the individual and society. Democracy emerges here as an open group experience – underpinned by listening, vulnerability and the difficulty of being present together.
Artistic contributions from the Class for Performative Arts: Robin Becker, Lotta Beckers, Véra Marie Deubner, Luca Diebold, To Fabek, Johanna Gruber, Max Grund, Rahel Scharabi, Ossama Shalgheen (Aseem), Soschka, Asya Volodina
The performances were created within the context of Jule Flierl’s Score Laboratory, as well as as part of Anna Zett’s study project “Public in Person”.
Programme:
Augustusplatz: “Teestunde” , dialogue performance,
Soschka “Prologue: Standard Rifles (G95A1, MG4, G28, G22 to G25, MG50-1, MZF1, GLM, AG36, MG6, MP7A1, MP5K, Mauser Model 98 and many more)”, performance;
Rahel Scharabi “es kippt es”, performance;
Max Grund with the Gewandhaus Choir
“SCHREI (chor)”, choral composition;
Robin Becker with the Gewandhaus Choir
Main Hall: “Stabil”, 3 compositions for solo voices, choir and organ,
Véra Marie Deubner, with the Gewandhaus Choir
“I am the sea (أنا البحر)”, vocal performance,
Ossama Shalgheen (Aseem) “Organum2026”, composition for choir and organ,
Luca Diebold with the Gewandhaus Choir
Mendelssohn Hall: “Dämmerungen”, a participatory composition for solo, duo and choir, by
Lotta Beckers, To Fabek and Johanna Gruber with the Gewandhaus Choir. Created as part of the study project “Public in Person: Assembly” by
Anna Zett
Democracy | Gewandhaus Leipzig
