Orbit – A War Series

Orbit – A War Series – Andrea Avezzù, La Biennale di Venezia / Biennale Musica

The title Orbit: A War Series is a reference to the New York artist Nancy Spero: deeply moved by the photographs of the Vietnam War that were circulating in the media, Spero investigated the links between sexuality, violence, and power in The War Series (1966–70). The subject of oppressive power structures revealed in her art is horrifyingly relevant today. Orbit: A War Series appeals to the images in our minds: Brigitta Muntendorf’s immersive 3D audio space oratorio is like an electroacoustic series of narratives in which sounds, texts, voices, and space become transmitters of power structures.

The texts are based on interviews and reports from Afghanistan, Iran, DR Congo, Poland, the U.S., and Asia during the Second World War. The musical spaces of violence, protection, escape, or exhibition form the acoustic habitat of the voices that their bodies left behind to form vocal clones and immortal warriors of a posthuman and techno-futuristic chorus that proclaims an opera of the future that is as sensorial as it is political.

Artists/Collaborators: (Autor/in), Brigitta Muntendorf (Komponist/in)

Produktion von La Biennale di Venezia und ECHO Factory

Kooperation mit dem Humboldt Forum

Mit freundlicher Unterstützung der Kunststiftung NRW, des Goethe-Instituts und der Ernst von Siemens Musik Stiftung

Next date:

• Date Wednesday, 02/April/2025 19:00 (4 more dates)
• Venue Humboldt-Forum
• Address Schloßplatz 1, 10178 Berlin-Mitte