URBAN MORPHOLOGIES Issue #21/09 - a concert installation
by Katharina Rosenberger (composition) and Betina Kuntzsch (video)
premiered by and in close collaboration with ensemble mosaik
Three Cities in Transition. URBAN MORPHOLOGIES Issue #21/09 is about disappearance, longings and becoming, utopia, resistance and resilience. Architecture for money, divided neighborhoods and rapid change, but also the need for dialogues and exchanges through all social structures are the consequences. The challenges are the same everywhere. The selection of Berlin - Los Angeles - Basel resulted from the collaboration of the participating artists* who inhabit them, witness their transformation and ask themselves how much this change is their responsibility after all?
In URBAN MORPHOLOGIES Issue #21/09 the audience embarks together with the artists on an audiovisual, chamber music and installation tour with indications of the past, present and hypothetical future of these three cities. In the process, the boundaries become blurred and it is sometimes unclear in which city one is currently located. Individual places come into focus, parallels and points of connection emerge, memories and fantasies take on a life of their own. In interviews and recitations, local populations as well as academics have their say; sound worlds of distinctive places are recreated and spun on. The photo and video documentations of the changing cities and their people merge into dynamic visual worlds.
URBAN MORPHOLOGIES Issue #21/09 – Berlin, Silent Green
Premiere Berlin: 1 September 2021, Silent Green, Betonhalle, Berlin
Premiere Basel: 19 September 2021, ZeitRäume Basel, industrial spaces of CIBA, K26, Klybeckstrasse 161
Katharina Rosenberger – composition
Betina Kuntzsch – video
ensemble mosaik
Simon Strasser – oboe
Christian Vogel – clarinet
Sebastian Lange – saxophone
Ernst Surberg – piano, turntables, performance
Chatchatur Kanajan – violin
Karen Lorenz – viola
Mathis Mayr – cello
Arne Vierck – sound direction
Gwen Kyrg, Camilla Fehér – performance and voice
Patrick Klingenschmitt – dramaturgy
Kalma X / Eckehard Güther – video technology
Panagiotis Botzios – electricity-generating bicycles, usher (Berlin)
Benjamin Janisch – research assistance on mushrooms & mycelium, usher (Berlin)