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Vehicle

Gerhard Marx, Shane Cooper, Diamanda La Berge Dramm

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Artist Gerhard Marx has grafted two violins, a cello and a double bass onto the body of a motor vehicle. By transferring the delicate constellations of strings and bridges onto the surfaces of a vehicle, he turns the automotive body into resonator box to draw rich, varied and evocative voices from its body. Vehicle is as much about the intangible and emotive qualities of sound as it is about the raw, suggestive materiality of physical objects. It is the overlap of sound and object that drives this project – how does sound affect the way we see? Can we give ‘voice’ to an object and so extract narrative from its body? Marx places these car-doors-turned-instruments in the deft hands of the award winning Dutch Violinist, Diamanda La Berge Dramm and celebrated South African Double Bassist Shane Cooper to explore the varied potential sound-worlds that they draw from it. At times dark and broody, at times gently poetic, the immersive soundscapes of their improvisational interaction promise a mesmerizing and immersive experience to the audience. For the Holland Festival Vehicle will take two forms in theatre Frascati - live performances by Diamanda Dramm and Shane Cooper will be interspersed by an installation version of the project in which the instruments and the automotive lights are combined with a multi-channel video projection featuring pre-recorded prose by poet and travel writer Toast Coetzer written for Vehicle and filmed improvisations by Shane Cooper and legendary South African musician Kyle Shepherd. download the programme book

dates

Fri June 7 2019 9:30 PM

Sat June 8 2019 9:30 PM

Sun June 9 2019 9:30 PM

language & duration

  • Duration of performance unknown

Frascati programme associate artists

For two weeks Frascati theatre will be the home of associate artists William Kentridge and Faustin Linyekula. Alongside performances by themselves and artists who inspire them, there will be a lot of work from their studios.

Frascati programme associate artists

For two weeks Frascati theatre will be the home of associate artists William Kentridge and Faustin Linyekula. Alongside performances by themselves and artists who inspire them, there will be a lot of work from their studios.

These presentations show the importance of Kentridges The Centre for the Less Good Idea and Linyekula’s Studios Kabako, and how they function. There will be a unique and exciting programme in which the boundaries between various artforms disappear. Also, we will be organising a series of debates, called The Welcome Table, in which themes from the presentations (that are also topical in the Netherlands) are discussed.

Kentridge and Linyekula use The Centre For The Less Good Idea and Studios Kabako to give both young and more experienced (performing) artists the space, opportunities and inspiration to work on their oeuvre. For Amsterdam they selected work using different criteria: Linyekula is giving two young artists the opportunity to test new work on Dutch audiences as works-in-progress; Kentridge selected presentations from all the seasons thus far been organised at The Centre.

Choose one or more parts of the programme and be surprised by performances that not only add a new perspective to Kentridge and Linyekula’s artistry, but also tell new stories – from intensely political reflections, exceptional childhood memories and attempts to create new myths for a new era.

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credits

concept Gerhard Marx direction Gerhard Marx world premiere 19 oktober 2018, Centre for the Less Good Idea, Johannesburg, Zuid Afrika creation Gerhard Marx performance Shane Cooper, Kyle Shepherd, Diamanda La Berge Dramm video technology Joav Dagan, Noah Cohen editing Joav Dagan, Noah Cohen text Toast Coetzer vocals Toast Coetzer

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