Fall of the Heroes
opera cycle
The Opera cycle is an artistic project, an imitation of an opera performance evening,
a compilation of six videos projected as bigscreen projections onto a canvas on
theatral stage, with accopaniment of live chamber-orchestral music (the theatre and
the orchester, even the audience as parts of the setting)
Fall of the heroes is a tragedy of men ( or personally the artist) who, as a consequnece
of various pressures and tensions - from inside the subjecti ve and the historical
memory, also memories and histories of others - is constrained to become a hero.
(heroism of success, herosim of sacrifice, heroism of messianism, heroism for the sake
of others...)
Opera also the way video is used are media of the gesammtkunst, the ideal if not supreme media of the artist - hero. This way the artist as creator/DJ/ highest coordinator
of this cycle, besides playing the various heroes in the videos, is also the
artist-motivator organiser in the background, a hero enplacing himself in the roles of
the composer, playwright, actor (playing artists). The complex interrelation of all the
roles creates a net, which in the end shows the impotence, non-universal competence
of men/ artist/ hero. On the contrary , through emotional engagement, the beauty of
this fall becomes clear.
*Godefroy de Bouillon
*Gate, or Kaiser Wilhelm II. about the dark side
*Apollo project
*Wunderlich
*Cyberclasm
*Sardanapalus