Klaus Lang: Bright Darkness

Program

Klaus Lang: bright darkness

Cast

Ensemble Nikel
Aaron Holloway-Nahum: Technische Leitung Nikel
Alfred Reiter: Tontechnik

Quite often, what we perceive isn’t actually the impressions we get from our senses, but our perception is pre-shaped by ideas. A learned mechanism in our mind stops us from realising our sense perception potential. And sometimes what we actually witness is the exact opposite of our preconceived notions or our biased expectation: when we exclude all sound, it gets louder and louder, when we close our eyes it gets bright. We could ask ourselves what we really see, when we close our eyes to see ‘nothing’, and what is merely our concept of ‘seeing nothing’ and ‘darkness’? Similar things are true for movement: sometimes we can’t tell whether an object is moving or not. Is what we hear a chord or a line, a shape or a process, or is our mind the only thing that’s moving? Where can we find answers to these questions? (Klaus Lang)

Produktion Wien Modern