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Revolving Histories (#bangbang-1607)

tableau vivant (Utopien)
(1999)

https://www.peteremch.ch
Emch, Peter Emch, Peter (Performer)
Hunziker, Daniel Robert (Architektur,Bau)
Emch, Nik (Assistenz)
Emch, Peter (Eventcurator)
ZHdK (Eventcurator)
Lindenmeier, Patrick (Camera:Kamera)
Spielhofer, Hildergard (Camera:Schnitt)
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Multimedia performance Politics Conceptual Sitting Mask Music Public space Documentation of a performance

Concept of the performance "TABLEAU VIVANT" at Kunsthof Zurich from October 25 to November 5, 1999. 1 hour each time. This text complements the documentary video. The event is dominated by three elements, each of which in itself thematizes the concept of UTOPIA. - On the back wall is a large charcoal drawing of an infinite horizon. This evokes the UTOPIA of a Swiss "unobstructed view of the Mediterranean". A formative demand of the turbulent 80s youth in Zurich. - the monitor in the foreground has a large number of people from different cultures quoting the first sentence from the communist manifesto. As a reference to an as yet unfulfilled UTOPIA. - In the right foreground sits a guitar-playing protagonist wearing a dark-skinned mask modeled on the famous Afro-American rock musician Chuck Berry. His presence as an obviously light-skinned person in a role idealized by him stands as a metaphor for the UTOPIE of being able to exchange identity as well as social and cultural affiliations. The guitar sounds convey a melancholy atmosphere. In March 2022, Emch, Peter;

place: Kunsthof Limmatstrasse Zürich
KuratorIn: Emch, Peter; ZHdK
Dokumentationstyp: Dokumentation einer Performance/Aktion / Documentation of a performance/action

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Video 4:3
Dauer: 10 Min.