Hannes Seidl/Mara Genschel
(Frankfurt/Berlin)
21 Songs in a Public Surrounding
Dialogmuseum & Hauptwache, B-Ebene
Performance/Concert
- 27.04.2023, 6.00-9.00 pm3 Euro
- 28.04.2023, 6.00-9.00 pm3 Euro
- 29.04.2023, 18.00-21.00 Uhr3 Euro
Brightly coloured, loud and with anarchic joy, musicians from the Berlin ensemble MAM and poet and performer Mara Genschel move into the B-level of the Hauptwache. For three days, they disrupt the busy day-to-day life beneath the city and invite you to open up to the place and its sounds, smells and people – with the freedom to perceive everything in a completely different way. They call on us to celebrate ourselves and the moment together for a brief instant, despite and because of all that is unaccomplished, unfinished, impossible, possibly embarrassing that penetrates below the city’s surface. It is a strange collective that this group has created with their songs, a wild mix of energetic music, confessions and normally well-protected insecurities, which they track down by intervening in public space across Europe’s underground passages: Who are these beings? Their names sound like passwords, they always distance themselves from “the people” with inverted commas. Apparently they travel through time. Are they post-human? Aliens? Or simply social workers in disguise? Visitors moreover have the chance to be transported to underground passages across Europe in short audio pieces every thirty minutes in the sound room of the Dialogue Museum and to learn more from the reports of this strange group.
In the Dialog Museum and B-level of the Hauptwache Frankfurt
Presentation in the sound room of the Dialog Museum every 30 minutes
Language: German
Cast & Credits
Hannes Seidl: Artistic direction, composition
Mara Genschel: Text
MAM.manufaktur für aktuelle musik: music, performance
Martin Müller: Costumes
formfellows: Visual design
ehrliche arbeit – freies kulturbüro: production management
“21 Songs” is a production by Hannes Seidl & Briefkastenfirma GbR in cooperation with Künstler*innenhaus Mousonturm, basis Frankfurt e.V. and DIALOGMUSEUM Frankfurt. Supported by the Kulturamt Frankfurt am Main and the Fonds Darstellende Künste with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media within the framework of NEUSTART KULTUR. Parts of the work were made possible by the “Karl Sczuka Research Grant”, which is awarded annually in cooperation with SWR and the Goethe-Institut.
Biography
Hannes Seidl
Hannes Seidl arbeitet als Komponist und Musiktheaterregisseur, oft in Kollaboration mit anderen Künstler*innen. Der Schwerpunkt seiner Arbeiten liegt in genreübergreifenden Formaten, wie etwa dem performativen Ausstellungsformat “We Can Be Heroes” (2021) Radio-Konzerten wie “You Are Here”(2020) und “Good Morning Deutschland” (2016) oder szenische Konzerte wie etwa “Salims Salon” (2017). Er erhielt zahlreiche Auszeichnungen u. a. der Darmstädter Ferienkurse für Neue Musik, der Akademie der Künste Berlin oder des DAAD.
Von 2008 – 2020 arbeitete er mit dem Videokünstler Daniel Kötter zusammen, mit dem er mehrere Musiktheater Installationen und Kurzfilme erarbeitete. (u.a. „Falsche Freizeit“ 2010 „Ökonomien des Handelns Kredit Recht Liebe“ 2013-2016 sowie die Trilogie “Stadt Land Fluss” 2017-2019. Hannes Seidl lebt in Frankfurt.
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