HAMBURG, WILHELMSBURG
23|03|2013 17-19h
UTOPIA
Hamburg
Wilhelmsburg Mitte
IBA 2013
directed by KOMMANDO HIMMELFAHRT
Wilhelmsburg Mitte
IBA 2013
directed by KOMMANDO HIMMELFAHRT
in Collaboration with Kampnagel Internationale Kulturfabrik
For
the opening of the IBA 2013 programme, KOMMANDO HIMMELFAHRT present
their artistic vision of Utopia. On 23 March, ranging through the
newly built apartments, offices, indoor climbing facilities, foyers
and underground garages in Wilhelmsburg Mitte, they transcend our
times, so lacking in Utopias, with visual and acoustic displays and
live performances. Music fills the new spaces with the sounds of a
world to come, projected images make the buildings move,
installations draw us into foreign lifestyles and ethereal choirs
transport the visitor outside time and place. In the extremities
of European indecision, when every solution promises only to make
things worse, KOMMANDO HIMMELFAHRT turn to their favourite saint:
Thomas More, author of the world-famous work of fantasy "Utopia",
who was martyred in 1535. More invented his Utopia with no regard to
reality - it is a strange island where tolerance, equality and reason
reign. KOMMANDO HIMMELFAHRT have their own vision of the ideal
island. The map of Utopia guides the audience through the show
scenes. The search for the various places of performance
automatically brings visitors to the new building projects which
speak of the tense relationship between Utopian ideas and economic
realities. The circuit ends in the "KLUB UTOPIA", venue for
the scintillating party to close the IBA opening weekend. Can it
really be a coincidence that the Elbe Island of Wilhelmsburg almost
looks as if it were the inspiration for More's map of Utopia?
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