Charlotte Hug
viola and voice
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Wolfgang Siuda
stage direction
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Christa Wenger
/blendwerk lighting design
Slipway to Galaxies
A scenic solo performance for viola, voice and lighting design
“Insomnia” is the title of the multi-media installation in the Lucerne Museum of Art through which Swiss violist, composer, and performance artist Charlotte Hug — this summer’s “artiste étoile” — investigates “the phases of matter of the night.” She started with an unusual experimental condition: Hug subjected herself and her creative process to a 40-hour period of sleep deprivation in the University of Zurich’s sleep laboratory. Then she made recordings of her improvisations for viola and voice as well as drawings, and from these she developed “Son-Icons” (what might be described as her seismographic drawings) for the “Insomnia” installation and for her new solo stage performance titled “Slipway to Galaxies.” Throughout the entire period during which the installation is on display, it will be in a constant state of change so that ever-new combinations of composed music modules and light rhythms can be experienced. The exhibit space will additionally serve as a performance area for improvisation by the London-based Stellari String Quartet (the ensemble that Charlotte Hug cofounded a decade ago, together with three British masters of free improvisation). The space will also be used for solo performances in which Hug traces myths of the night related to Celtic mythology. To further enhance the project there will be a round table discussion on the installation and its genesis and on the festival theme of “night.”
Dates:
Saturday, 13 August, 5 p.m. (world première)
Sunday, 14 August, 5 p.m.
Tuesday, 16 August, 6 p.m.
Saturday, 20 August, 4 p.m. (afterwards round table)
Wednesday, 24 August, 6 p.m.
Tuesday, 6 August, 6 p.m. (followed by a talk with Charlotte Hug)
Thursday, 8 September, 6 p.m.
Sunday, 11 September, 5 p.m.
Wednesday, 14 September, 6 p.m. (followed by a talk with Charlotte Hug)
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Tickets can only be purchased over the phone (+41 (41) 226 44 80) or at the box office. The box office opens one hour before the concert begins, except in the case of concerts with introductory talks, when it opens half an hour before the talk.
Tickets CHF 30
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