‘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

Credits

• A film by: Emma Waltraud Howes
• Production Manager and Assistant Director: Marie Glassl
• Production Assistance: Elena Popova, Anna van der Veen
• Performer, Co-Composition and Vocals (Aria Monumental): Kinga Ötvös
• Research (Aria Monumental): Jess Gadani
• Performer (Metronome Timekeeper): Jao Moon
• Performer (Scorekeeper I): Joni Barnard
• Performer (Scorekeeper II): Annalise Van Even
• Performer (Battle aka Let All Canons Fall, or Aktualneurosen): Eli Cohen
• Performer (Cornucopia aka Energetic Pessimist (after Kristeva)): Chia - Ying Chiang, Sonya Levin
• Performer (Narcissist aka The Narcissist, or Elsa's Muse): Przemek Kamiński
• Director of Photography: Kleber Nascimento
• Camera Operator: Lena Krenz
• 1st Assistant Camera: Boyko Panayotov
• 2nd Assistant Camera and Data Wrangler: Adela Asavei
• Gaffer : Alexander Kain
• Electricians: Lewin Berninger, Marcel Ruddies
• Grip: Marlon Koppelkamm
• Technician (DMX Operator): Marc A. Bodenbach
• Still Photography : Nicholas Ash
• Sound Recording & Design: Adam Asnan
• Technician (Extinct Audio BM9 microphone): Stewart Tavener
• Composition : Jacob Stoy
• Composition Research: Ethan Braun
• Costume Design (Baroque(n) Tethers): Studio Marta Martino
• Costume Design (Scorekeepers Attire): Don Aretino & Muyao Zhang
• Hair and Makeup Special Effects: Caterina Veronesi
• Hair Makeup Assistant : Fu Okamura
• Costume Assistance (Metronome Timekeeper): Caterina Veronesi, Cristina Nyffeler
• Costume Assistance (Inflatable sculptures): Ursula E. Klein | Schulteswien & Rosa Czernin
• Glass Assistance: Rudy Faulkner, Berlin Glas e.V.
• Graphic Designer: Daniel Neubacher
• Co-production: Ludwig Kameraverleih, SUMOLIGHT
• Project Manager (Ludwig Kameraverleih): Thomas Buchholz
• Lighting: Klaus Hamlescher (SUMOLIGHT)
• with Additional Gratitude : Big Image, TLT
• Catering: Farrah Hammadou | TableFarrah
• Post Production Manager: Philipp Maurice Raube, Die Neue Lux
• Editor: Elisa Purfürst
• Visual Effects: Lars Ledebur
• Post Production House: The Post Republic
• Color Grading : Gregor Pfüller, Maren Henke
• Sound Mix: Henry Uhl
• Surtitles layout and design: Franziska Morlok, Belén Ríos Falcón, Rimini Berlin
• English copy editor: Mark Soo
• French Translation: Marie Glassl, Charlotte Lalou Rousseau
• French copy editors: Chloé Gagné Dion, Bernard Bohbot

Exhibition History

• The Time it Takes
  2024
  Musee d'art de Joliette
  Joliette, QC

Related Publication

• Scores for Daily Living
  2020
  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)