VERGEHEN (passing) – opera that you walk

Mathis Nitschke
PASSING (Vergehen) Trailer in 360

Description

VERGEHEN is an opera that you walk. Simply download the VERGEHEN app to your smartphone, take your headphones and walk at the Munich river Isar. You can walk VERGEHEN on any day at any time and in any weather.
A walk with your smartphone

Imagine that you take a walk at the river Isar in Munich. Your smartphone starts a conversation, involving you in a discourse about memories and the past. How would that sound?

It’s almost a pact: the smartphone lets us participate in the seemingly endless treasures of information and knowledge, all from a small personal companion. In return, we reveal our innermost and core, and – through touch – we practice some peculiar form of intimacy with it.

The audio walk VERGEHEN (Passing) engages with this topic from the futuristic perspective of a utopian technical promise: our experiences can be saved and replayed forever with a brain wave recorder, the memory will be indistinguishable from the original experience. So far, we had to painstakingly translate our experiences and emotions into language, art or music to be able to communicate them. With such a machine that wouldn’t be necessary anymore. Is that really something to desire? That’s one of the questions asked in VERGEHEN.

SOPRANO: Sarah Aristidou
NARRATORS: Sarah Aristidou, Mathis Nitschke, Google Android
CELLO: Anja Lechner
CONCEPT, COMPOSITION: Mathis Nitschke

Details

Artist
Mathis Nitschke
Year
2017
City
Munich
Country
Germany

Categories

Industry
Entertainment & Art
Location
Open-Air
Participants
<50
Topic
Art, Interactive, Music, Nature, Smartphone
Type
App, Culture & Art, Public Experience