SUBNORMAL EUROPE
Performances
Description:
Subnormal Europe is a 60-minute music theater play co-created by Óscar Escudero & Belenish Moreno-Gil. The performance involves a singer/performer and a sound engineer/performer, whose physical and virtual personas are staged in an installation composed by 3 large screens, 9 loudspeakers, MIDI-DMX lighting, and a wooden cube.
The Directorate General for Education and Culture of the European Union has delegated to the Münchener Biennale the commission of a project of innovation and development in the context of the German Presidency of the European Commission between July and December 2020. Quoting the text of the agreement between the parties, “the main purpose of this initiative is the exact technical reproduction of those instants, which have marked our history of progress in the audiovisual field. The collection must be composed by a set of files, which may be exhibited together with their originals, not being able to distinguish one from the other.” Following these guidelines, musical dramatist Belenish Moreno-Gil and composer Óscar Escudero have designed a session staging singer Noa Frenkel and sound engineer Sebastian Schottke. The team, in cooperation with the Zentrum für Kunst und Medien Karlsruhe, will face the challenge of creating live replicas of these fragments in each of the performances. The outcomes of the process will be eventually compiled and stored by the EU in order to fulfill the goals of the project, among them, and quoting again the award agreement: “to take the pulse of the current state of the European values and to reaffirm the sense of citizenship of its inhabitants, as well as the knowledge of our common history and its contributions to human development in difficult times for Europeanism.”
