THE HUMAN PROVINCE / DIE PROVINZ DES MENSCHEN (54/27)
10 ch sound, 28 ch video, 2016
54 films, 27 channel video
54 tracks, 8 channel audio
loop 21 min
assistance: René Liebert
A man exits the theatre, walks to the curb, gets into a car and drives home. In the sound and video installation “The Human Province”, we listen to and observe this man over a period of ten years doing the same ritual in nearly 50 cities in 25 countries. While driving through these cities, he describes his view of society based on passages taken from Elias Cannetti’s book “The Human Province”. The main character in the sound and video installation of the same name by composer/director Heiner Goebbels is played by the French actor André Wilms. The long-term project will now be presented for the first time as a multimedia sculpture at the Kunsthalle im Lipsiusbau. The work is comprised of 54 successive film sequences featuring a polyphonic sound composition based on the soundscapes of the cities. The key motifs of the installation include listening, seeing, repetition, aging and the relationship between the individual and public space.
"Following your thought proposal on a “cinema of care” The Human Province could be regarded as such a “cinema machine” highly fostering questions of "separation, conjuncture and disruption“ . We follow the path of Andrè Wilms who executes the same text and movement score 54 times in XX cities in the world. The repetition of the same material over and over again creates a shift from the motif to the action itself. Or to speak with Deleuze: The act of producing becomes an purpose in itself, it detaches itself from the product. A feedback of the desiring machine emerges - the „cosmoagonic" self."
Texts
Die Provinz des Menschen (Review, de)
Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden
13 March 2016, Renate Puvogel, kunstforum
54 mal Leben (Review, de)
Heiner Goebbels transferiert zwei frühere Arbeiten im Dresdner Lipsiusbau in eine großartige multimediale Installation
1 March 2016, Thomas Irmer, Theater der Zeit
Die Provinz des Menschen (Review, de)
Ein älterer Mann auf dem Weg nach Hause. Der französische Schauspieler Andre Wilms flieht einsam durch eine Symphonie aus Bildern und Klängen...
25 January 2016, Dresden Eins TV
Heiner Goebbels - Installation (Review, de)
"Die Provinz des Menschen"
15 January 2016, Birgit Fritz, MDR
Alle Interpretationen sind wahr und richtig (Review, de)
Theatermann Heiner Goebbels präsentiert als Kunst-Quereinsteiger in Dresden seine Videoinstallationen
15 January 2016, Uwe Salzbrenner, Sächsische Zeitung
Kunst - Installation von Heiner Goebbels zu „Provinz des Menschen“ (Review, de)
14 January 2016, Focus
54 Mal die gleiche Szene (Review, de)
Multimediale Installation von Heiner Goebbels
14 January 2016, Simone Reber, Deutschlandradio Kultur
Heiner Goebbels. The Human Province (Review, en)
8 January 2016, Christopher D. Shea, NY Times
Die Provinz des Menschen (Review, de)
Heiner Goebbels in den Kunstsammlungen Dresden
16 January 2015, Carsten Probst, Deutschlandfunk
Past Dates
April 2016
Lipsiusbau, Dresden (Germany)
March 2016
Lipsiusbau, Dresden (Germany)
February 2016
Lipsiusbau, Dresden (Germany)
January 2016
Lipsiusbau, Dresden (Germany)