Gisela Weimann >www.giselaweimann.de<
Since the 80s the focal points of my projects are sound installations and experimental music-theatre productions that include artists and theorists from different fields and national descend.
Gisela Weimann
Rural pleasure trip / an investigation of sounds
With the help and fantasy of local citizens the load area of a trailer is covered with vessels, jars and containers of different size, shape and material. They are loosely filled with all kinds of small stuff like glass, different metals, wood, ceramic etc. When the trailer is set into motion these materials are moved around. They jump up and down and create a noisy symphony of rattling, cracking, grinding and clinging sounds when the trailer travels over bumpy ground or they produce delicate chamber music on smooth land. At stops a music group may form and use the containers as handheld instruments. At a special event the trailer will be hooked up to agricultural machinery like a fork-lift truck. Its shovel could be filled with other sound producing materials, for instance blue play marbles (or candies wrapped in golden paper for the children) that would be released as a highlighting event of the music performance.
Mobile Illusions / looking backwards while going forwards
By fixing Trabant car rear-view mirrors with cramps to the bars of a city bus it is changed into a mirror cabinet that undergoes a metamorphoses into a symbol of the reminder to keep an attentive look back on the past and on the present: look behind you before you move forward!
On its journey this mobile installation reflects (on) the city and its landmarks with a multitude of impressions, retrospects, thoughts and personal memories. The mirrors swop left and right, confront the passengers with images of themselves and others and fragment the world around into many sections of mirror images that also mirror each other. Citizens and artist of all disciplines are invited to use the bus as a stage for a guided tour to their favourite places, for reading texts, playing music and taking up a poetic new relationship with their city’s past and present.
Gisela Weimann >www.giselaweimann.de<
Since the 80s the focal points of my projects are sound installations and experimental music-theatre productions that include artists and theorists from different fields and national descend.
Gisela Weimann
Rural pleasure trip / an investigation of sounds
With the help and fantasy of local citizens the load area of a trailer is covered with vessels, jars and containers of different size, shape and material. They are loosely filled with all kinds of small stuff like glass, different metals, wood, ceramic etc. When the trailer is set into motion these materials are moved around. They jump up and down and create a noisy symphony of rattling, cracking, grinding and clinging sounds when the trailer travels over bumpy ground or they produce delicate chamber music on smooth land. At stops a music group may form and use the containers as handheld instruments. At a special event the trailer will be hooked up to agricultural machinery like a fork-lift truck. Its shovel could be filled with other sound producing materials, for instance blue play marbles (or candies wrapped in golden paper for the children) that would be released as a highlighting event of the music performance.
Mobile Illusions / looking backwards while going forwards
By fixing Trabant car rear-view mirrors with cramps to the bars of a city bus it is changed into a mirror cabinet that undergoes a metamorphoses into a symbol of the reminder to keep an attentive look back on the past and on the present: look behind you before you move forward!
On its journey this mobile installation reflects (on) the city and its landmarks with a multitude of impressions, retrospects, thoughts and personal memories. The mirrors swop left and right, confront the passengers with images of themselves and others and fragment the world around into many sections of mirror images that also mirror each other. Citizens and artist of all disciplines are invited to use the bus as a stage for a guided tour to their favourite places, for reading texts, playing music and taking up a poetic new relationship with their city’s past and present.