One Day the Mountain Will Fly Away            performance concept

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"One day the mountain will fly away "  is a collaborative multimedia art project which explores the relationship between landscape as a natural and divine force and enclosed space as a device of civilization.  We use art (sound, movement , text, photography and video, interactive media) as an attempt to translate between natural landscape and enclosed space, to develop a new dimension of communication to decode the departure of  the flying mountain .

This project is inspired by the Tibetan legend of the Flying Mountain : According to Tibetan folklore, mountains came flying in from another country, in general from India, at the time when some natural disaster was ravaging Tibet; However, their presence in Tibet is not at all permanent, and they can fly away again from the country at any time.  These mountains are able to move , a very surprising concept given that mountains represent, generally speaking, stability and immutability.  The coming of a flying mountain suppresses whatever disorder the country is suffering and its presence maintains order.  However, at any time they may fly away again, ushering in a new period of degeneration and devestation.
Legend has it that mTsho snying Ma há de va (the heart of the lake) located in North-eastern Tibet is one of these flying mountains.  It's a rocky island.

This project is based on the idea of the divinity of the mountain's departure. The old legend mentioned a time of degeneration.

question one : Are we close to such a period of degeneration now?
question two : where will the flying mountain land next?
question three: Can we fly to any place we want to go now?
answer three :  In the old days there was a lot more of everything. yes, there used to be mysterious islands, kingdoms and whole continents that no longer exist.
( - the 13 1/2 lives of captain bluebear, a novel--by--Walter Moers-)

question four:  can we listen to the fresh butter tea form Tibet ?
I answer :  our ear is made for listening  to the air.

 

 

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Sound is a phenomenom involved in and determining the shape of the world.  
Landscape is shaped by the interaction of time and space.

We may define landscape as an acoustic container and sound as a dialogue through which landscape and humans can interact. 
This phenomenon gives us a chance to experience and recreate an invisible landscape, and generate its energy.

We treated our sound recordings from Tibet in a specific way to give the impression of an enclosed space, and so to give a perceptible density of energy from the original space and time in which it was recorded.
We used multi-track  recording on DAT and minidisc with two different types of microphones.
* 2 x  OKM binaural Mic.                     - allows for realistic spatial representation
** 1 x mini DV camera internal Mic.       - spatiality according to visual perspective
We also recorded spatial movements in order to make solid unstable abstract energic. Show trajectories instead of static situations. These recordings deal with our perceptions of space and time, our relationships with landscapes, both external and within ourselves.

 

 

 

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+++++  the collaborative multimedia art event in the Projekt-Raum +++++

One day the day will come when the day won't come.
----(paul virilio, open sky )-------
it is just one small step from earth – matter to space – light – a leap or a take-off able to free us for the moment from gravity.

Projekt-Raum  -  an  encolosed space is a container for an art exhibition, event, action and related behaviour. This space, as a device of civilization, has its own attributes such as collectivity, collaboration, experimentation, as well as selectivity, temporariness and expressivity.

The art gallery is a reflection of our culutre and society, it concerns and also drives the culutral development.
Projekt-Raum has been chosen as the space where the the art project «One day the mountain will fly away» will be presented. 
The duration of the exhibition is 10 days (13th.June to 22th.June 2002),  setting a defined Point Of Depature and a limitation on the intensity of time.

 ** cut to : The space of architecture: meaning as presence and representation:
  “ Plato is describing nothing less than the space of human creation and participation, postulating a coincidence between topos and chora (human creativity, and a cosmic abstract space). Chora is a distinct reality to be apprehended in the chiasma , the cross, of Being and Becoming.
The relationship between topos and chora is the basis for human creativity, the provenience of poetry and art."

 

 

 

 

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all different particles belong to their own " ground", but based on one Legend. "One Day the Mountain will Fly Away".

/ Echo Ho and Hannes Hölzl went to Tiebt in summer 2001, looking for the flying mountain and
brought back their sound recordings and road images
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days permanent sound setup makes projekt-raum an audible space.
* 8 x loudspeakers multi-channel, of which
4 speakers are distributed around the wall, all facing to the centre of the room. they are outputs of the live soundscape played by Echo Ho and Hannes Hölzl.  a compass of
4 plexiglass speakers placed in the space's centre projects the sound manipulated by the dancer.


+ the Rough Cut Tibetan Roads video images are projected on the window during the 9 days.
these picked up memories are mostly about developing roads in Tibet, and endless turning pilgrim wheels.
The circle is not round, the way points to the departure......



/ From the time before their departure to Tibet up until the present the team has shared the legend of Flying Mountain with other artists who had their own responses to the legend ......
The first story becoming : 
+ Photography from Andreas Hirsch.
he wrote for his photo series "This Summer I didn't go to China" :
Im Sommer 2001 sage ich meine Teilnahme an einer von Echo Ho geleiteten Expidition nach China und Tibet ab. Meine Freunde reisen ohne mich ab, und ich beginne unter Verwendung von Papier, Putzlappen, meines Bettzeugs sovie diverser Socken, Berglandschaften auf meinem Bett aufzubauen und abzulichten.
Ich mache Bilder von den Orten, an denen ich nicht gewesen bin. Gewissermassen verkehrte Reisefotographie.
Dabei enstehen auch einige Aufnahmen fliegender Berge, die auf eine tibetische Legende zurueckgehen: so glauben die Tibeter , dass einige ihrer Berge von langer Zeit herbeigeflogen sind und sich niedergelassen haben, sich eines Tages aber wieder in die Luft erheben und davonfliegen werden. Um das zu verhindern, ketten die Tibeter diese Berge fest.


The second story:
+ movement improvisation by Vandana Röger.
with Martin Nawarth's support, we developed a sensor costume which picks up Vandana's movement and influences the live sound played by the musicians via MIDI controls. In this way the dancer can add her own perspective to the acoustic events, thus creating a multi-directional network of communication between the performers.  The dancer, who now finds her movements monitored in an unusual way, may have to pay more attention to her inner consicousness of movement.

The outputs of the two sources of sound, desktop musicians and moving performer, are spatially and timbrally separated through different types of loudspeakers and different installation  postions in space; even different setups like column and surround are used to emphasize the difference of their own presence.  Eventually, they both meet in space, so visitors will experience the whole space ( topos and chora ) through their own chiasmic perception of sound, movement and themselves.


The third story:
+ text improvisation  by  > guest <
back to the roots where we got the inspiration for this art project.
the legend of flying mountain, the living legend of looking for the departure.
Inversion of a point of departure is a poetic and critical argument.
write or read in space in action on point    ----    play like in old days.
TEXT   ?                   TEXTING ...     TEXT !        EXIST ,         EXIT&      TEXT .

 

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Opening                                      a point of departure
13.June.2002   Projektraum KHM, Cologne

a point of departure                     text
a point of departure                     sounds
a point of departure                     movement
a point of departure                     still and moving pictures
Daily Performances
14th. June. - 21.June.2002           

Finssage                                         a point of departure         
22.June.2002

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Ausstellung     Do 13. - Sa 22. Juni
täglich 16-18h

- Wheeling Lhasa - Wiedergabe von Mehrkanalaufnahmen,
- Rough Cut Tibetan Roads - Videoprojektion von Echo Ho & Hannes Hölzl;
- This Summer I Didn't Go To China - Photograhphie von Andreas Hirsch
- Progressing Performance    Fr 14. - Sa 22.Juni täglich 20-21h.

in einer 9-tägigen fortschreitenden Improvisation mit Musik, Bewegung und Text versuchen die Teilnehmer, sich  dem "point of departure" von ihrer persönlichen Perspektive zu nähern.
Im Musikalischen sorgt ein Sensor-Instrument fuer eine Vernetzung aller Akteure, sodaß ein multiperspektivisches, räumlich differenziertes Klangbild entsteht.
Musik: Echo Ho, Hannes Hölzl; Tanz: Vandana Roeger; Photographie: Andreas Hirsch; Text: Gast

  

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