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approx. 60 minutes
For more than a year, Matthias Engler and Gunnhildur Einarsdóttir endeavored to reconstruct a lost piece of music—Vis-à-Vis, composed jointly by John Cage, Toru Takemitsu, and the performance duo THE. The theater piece, in which they retrace their quest, uses documentary techniques to take us on a journey back in time to a September evening in 1986 in San Diego, California. For moments, we feel: “This is how it must have been!” Vis-à-Vis is a theater piece in which Engler and Einarsdóttir talk vis-à-vis with people who share memories of a performance that was developed vis-à-vis by various artists and which, because everything must remain speculation, ultimately eludes us. A piece not just about music, but about the closeness and simultaneous remoteness of the past.
Concept, Direction
Gunnhildur Einarsdóttir, Matthias EnglerMusic
John Cage, Tōru Takemitsu, THE, Ensemble AdapterVideos
Katsuhiro Yamaguchi, THE, Marcel Duchamp, Matthias EnglerWords
Makoto Ōoka, Marcel Duchamp, John CageWith
Matthias Engler Percussion, Performance
Gunnhildur Einarsdóttir Harp, Performance
A production of Ensemble Adapter