It’s here! The project film for the performative reading of “*Topie – Space is the case” (2023)

Last year, *TOPIE was the title and occasion for the publication of an anthology by GEH8 Verlag. 14 authors from all over Germany and Iran wrote texts in the form of short stories, poems and treatises, illustrated with drawings by the artist André Tempel, who also created an expansive installation in the GEH8 hall for the performative reading. Inspired by the idea of “poem simultaneity”, which originated in the 1920s, the authors, including Marcel Beyer, read more or less simultaneously. Soloists from the Ensemble AuditivVokal accompanied the readers based on a libretto by Kathrin Assauer and compositions by Alberto Arroyo and Samir TimajChi under the direction of conductor Olaf Katzer. The performance was flanked by an exhibition on the theme in the WERKRaum at GEH8 by the artists Brigitte Mierau, Mahsa Momayezi, Mahsa Foroughi and André Tempel.

The following short film, which artistically documents and captures the evening of the performative reading, was produced at the end of the project:

CONTRIBUTORS

Producers:
Aestetic-Trust Network
Jannis Jott
Sebastian Wanke

AuditivVokal Dresden:
Sopran: Anne Stadler, Coco Lau, Katharina Salden, Lidia Luciano
Alt: Julia Böhme, Constanza Filler
Bass: Benjamin Mahns-Mardy , Mykola Piddubnyk, Cornelius Uhle
Tenor: Oliver Chubb

Conductor: Alberto Arroyo

Musical direction: Olaf Katzer

Komponists: Alberto Arroyo, Samir TimajChi

Authors: Arash Alborz, Kathrin Assauer, Marcel Beyer, Michael Duszat, Ruth. G. Gross, Grisella Kreiterling, Martina Lenz, Marc Matthies, Masoud Riahi, Dorothee Schröder, Anja Schwennsen, Pajand Soleymani, Astrid Stähler, Silke Tobeler, Ferdinand Vicončaij

 

Many thanks to all contributors for the great teamwork!

You can buy the publication here!

 

The project was funded by the Cultural Foundation of the Free State of Saxony. Thank you very much.