Artistic Direction
2023

BIENNALE MUSICA 2023-MICRO-MUSIC- TEATRO ALLE TESE-BRIGITTA MUNTENDORF - ORBIT - A WAR SERIES

BRIGITTA MUNTENDORF - ORBIT - A WAR SERIES
Year/Length: 2023, 55’, world premiere
Composition, artistic direction: Brigitta Muntendorf
Conception: Moritz Lobeck, Brigitta Muntendorf
Dramaturgy: Mehdi Moradpour
Programming: Lukas Nowok
Light design: Begoña Garcia Navas
War correspondent: Christina Lamb
Voices-clone: Lisa Aithnard, Arjopa Limburg, Nikka-Mae-Lopez
Voice cloning program: Respeecher
Field recordings: Alfred-Wegener-Institut, NOAA-Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, Ralf Zuleeg, d&b Audiotechnik
With the support of: Kunststiftung NRW, Goethe Instituts
Commission: La Biennale di Venezia with the support of the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation
Production: La Biennale di Venezia, ECHO Factory





PRESENTATION
ORBIT – A WAR SERIES refers to the War Series (1966-1970) by the American artist Nancy Spero that shows in one hundred and fifty gouache the connection between sexuality and oppressive power structures.
The protagonists are female voices that have shed their physical bodies and have been cloned by AI: just as violence makes everyone a thing, the artificial voices are also in search of a place of becoming human. The texts are based on interviews, reports and documentaries from Afghanistan, Iran, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Poland, USA, Second World War in Asia or science fiction manifestos by female authors.
ORBIT – A WAR SERIES appeals to our inner images: it is listening that becomes a radical and political act, an act performed by the audience.
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