Unterreise - The Lost Songs
UNTERREISE - THE LOST SONGS
site-specific performance, ca. 60 minutes
Unterreise is a site-specific performance/music project created with selected songs of Franz Schubert. The core of this piece lies in solitude and its reflection.
The Brno edition was intertwining the selected songs with the semi-fictional diary entries of a prisoner who would be imprisoned in the dungeons somewhen in 18th/19th century.
In the corridor-like spatial situation, with rather lower temperature, it was necessary to make both the performers and the audience able to move - therefore, it meant to design certain stations of happening within the interior.
The usage of transcripts for the guitar was appropriate for the instrument and for the aim of the performance - to be focused on the narrativity of the place, without illustrative stories and romantic decorations. The space had surprisingly intimate acoustics.
Texts were available for the audience in the printed booklet and for the mobile phone screens.
Premiere: 17. 5. 2017
Organizer/venue: Muzeum města Brna, Kasematy Špilberk
Martina Šimkovičová, Peter Mazalán, concept – performers / Ondrej Veselý, guitar / Michal Hančák, text
Upon the kind invitation of Júlia Chodúrová-Bútorová
Video and photographs: Igor Smitka
