HEINER GOEBBELS
Stifter's Dinge
15 – 27 April 2008
P3, Marylebone Road, London NW1 [Venue Map]
Five grand pianos, insides out, are suspended in the clearing of a forest…
The instruments advance, playing furiously on their own as they glide over the steaming lagoon situated between us and the trees. Elsewhere in the landscape, the disembodied voices of Claude Lévi-Strauss, William S Burroughs and Malcolm X appear and disappear through the foggy darkness of history.
In an extraordinary sculptural installation that is part music box and part landscape painting, Heiner Goebbels' chief protagonists are all objects at the mercy of elemental forces. Stifter's Dinge is a performance with no performers: a series of chain reactions and changing climates of sound, image, text and movement.
In a composition both visual and musical, acclaimed international composer and director Heiner Goebbels takes as his starting point a fragment of text by early 19th century Romantic writer Adalbert Stifter, around which he creates a striking choreography of light and sound, shadowy mechanical objects and extreme weather.
Goebbels' compelling new work occupies an equally remarkable hidden space in central London: the cavernous interior of P3 - a former construction hall where concrete resistance was tested for the building of the M1 motorway.
Set design, lighting and video for Stifter's Dinge by Klaus Grünberg.
Heiner Goebbels
Inspired by an eclectic range of influences and sources, Goebbels' fascination with literature, politics and anthropology informs richly textured visual compositions that integrate classical, pop, jazz and traditional indigenous music. Recent works by Heiner Goebbels in the UK include Songs of Wars I Have Seen (Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, 2007), Eraritjaritjaka (Edinburgh International Festival, 2004) and Hashirigaki (Barbican 2002).
Tickets and Booking Information
Please note that this is a ticketed project and that tickets are now sold out.
15 – 27 April 2008; Tues to Fri 8pm; Sat 5pm and 8pm; Sun 5pm.
NB - ticketholders are advised to arrive 15 minutes before the show start time, as the performance begins promptly and latecomers may not be admitted.
Duration: 80mins.
Ticket prices: Ł16.50, Ł13.20 conc (Students / Senior Citizens / Unwaged) plus postage.
Venue Access
Wheelchair users and those with limited mobility should telephone Artangel on 020 7713 1400 prior to booking tickets to discuss venue facilities and arrange access.
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Stifter's Dinge is a co-commission by Artangel and Théâtre Vidy-Lausanne and produced by Théâtre Vidy.
Co-produced with spielzeit'europa/Berliner Festpiele, Grand Théâtre de la Ville de Luxembourg, schauspielfranfurt, T&M - Théâtre de Genevilliers/CDN, Pour-cent culturel Migros, Teatro Stabile di Torino. With the support of Pro Helvetia - Fondation suisse pour la culture.
Presented in partnership with P3, University of Westminster and with support from the Goethe-Institut.
Stifter's Dinge presented in Berlin, 2007. Photographs by Mario Del Curto.