‘At first gaze, this hyper-glitch Opera is incongruously out of time. One enters another world: meets mushrooms and corals, glass artichoke-hand grenades, the cross-section of which recur in graphic scores – cartographies that in turn provide the basis for the choreographic work. Drawings of allegorical sparrow figures are transformed into hand-painted costumes reminiscent of parachute-silk Arcimboldos during the process. Multiple reconfigurations of body and space in which words and gestures, movement and drawing, sculpture and language are ceaselessly translated into one another, into a mythological fabric in which everything is metaphorically interwoven; Bang Bang Baroque, Mao Zedong’s Sparrow War encounters traditional dance notations; Oskar Schlemmer and Klaus Nomi, Octavia Butler and Legacy Russel meet in baroque wigs for a ritual dance. A deep sigh; of relief or despair? Exhale, Deflation. Back to work. Until we glitch again, with a cocktail chalice in hand.’

— Maire Glassl

Bang Bang Baroque is currently in post-production and is scheduled to be released in the Winter of 2024. The three-channel presentation will accompany the material and performative elements of the interdisciplinary installation under the same name.

Credits

• a film by: Emma Waltraud Howes
• Production Manager AD: Marie Glassl
• Production Assistance: Elena Popova & Anna van der Veen
• Aria Monumental Co-Composition & Vocals: Kinga Ötvös
• Aria Monumental Research: Jess Gadani
• Metronome Timekeeper: Jao Moon
• Scorekeeper I & II: Joni Barnard & Annalise Van Even
• Battle: Eli Cohen
• Cornucopia: Chia - Ying Chiang & Sonya Levin
• Narcissist: Przemek Kamiński
• DOP: Kleber Nascimento
• Camera Operator: Lena Krenz
• 1st AC: Boyko Panayotov
• 2nd AC & Data Wrangler: Adela Asavei
• Gaffer : Alexander Kain
• Electricians: Lewin Berninger & Marcel Ruddies
• Grip: Marlon Koppelkamm
• DMX Op.: Marc A. Bodenbach
• Still Photography : Nicholas Ash
• Sound Recording & Design: Adam Asnan
• Composition : Jacob Stoy
• Composition Research: Ethan Braun
• Costume Design Baroque(n) Tethers: Studio Marta Martino
• Scorekeepers Attire: Don Aretino & Muyao Zhang
• Hair Makeup SFX: Caterina Veronesi
• Hair Makeup Assistant : Fu Okamura
• Metronome Timekeeper Support: Caterina Veronesi & Cristina Nyffeler
• Inflatable Sculpture Support: Ursula E. Klein | Schulteswien & Rosa Czernin
• Glass Support: Rudy Faulkner & Berlin Glas e.V.
• Scenography Support : Daniel Neubacher
• Co-production : Kamera Studio Ludwig
• Kamera Ludwig Project Manager: Thomas Buchholz
• Lighting Provided by: SUMOLIGHT & Klaus Hamlescher
• with Additional Gratitude : Big Image & TLT
• Catering: Farrah Hammadou | TableFarrah
• Editor: Elisa Purfürst
• Color Grading : Artem Stretovych
• Post Production House: The Post Republic

Exhibition History

• Bang Bang Baroque
  2024
  Musée d'art de Joliette
  Joliette, QC

Related Publication

• Scores for Daily Living
  2019
  Ed.: Mark Soo
  K Verlag
• Ankyloglossia (n.tongue-tie)
  2014
  Ed.: Emma Waltraud Howes & Franziska Morlok
  Co-published by K. Verlag and Künstlerhaus Bethanien GmbH.
• Ankyloglossia (n. tongue-tie) e-book
  2015
  Ed.: Emma Waltraud Howes & Franziska Morlok
  Rimini Berlin
• An Archive of Accident Gestures
  2011
  Ed.: Birgit Effinger & Hannah Kruse
  Published on the occasion of the exhibition Fast and Furious, Goldrausch (2011)