„Black
Mirror“ is a concert installation in an and around an abandoned hotel
located at the city border of Luxembourg. The audience arrives with a
bus and is equipped with wireless headphones, a cape and a cat mask.
From this point on audience and performers all look alike. The audience
is guided through the space via headphone instructions interacting with
each other and the performers. The hotel is put into different
audiovisual situations - it’s a dream-like scene supported by
surround-sound, automated moving light, performance and video
projection. The aim is to create an immersive setting in which the
audience is both thrown back to themselves and also confronted with an
anonymous group identity. Both the group situation and the specific site
of the abandoned hotel lay the scene for the emotional, subjective plot
of the piece. It’s designed as a return to a forgotten place which
stands for avoided, hurtful and dark memories. It’s as if returning to a
grave stone - confronting one’s past and one’s vulnerability. The
setting allows all kinds of horrific imagery and scary scenery - but is
merely used as a metaphor for what is supposed to be an honest emotional
confrontation with past, evanescence and grief.
The work was premiered by United Instruments of Lucilin at Rainy Days Festival last December.
Complete credits can be found here and here.
Thank you for your interest, all the best
Alexander
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