Garden Pleasures-Pleasure Gardens


VISUALS Sylvie Proidl
SOUND wintermute
WORDS Simon-Niklas Scheuring
STAGING Sylvie Proidl

LIVE ACT May 24th, 2007 at 7pm

Studio Sylvie Proidl
Schottenfeldgasse 76/2
A-1070 Vienna

Words and sounds converge in the labyrinth, initially expressing hope and desire, then fading away into nothingness. Hidden pleasures in the garden, departure to Kythera, always on quest forArcadia. Finely drawn visuals from the Rococo sketchbook, covered by black-and-white Japanese patterns, bewildering the modern observer.
Obsolete topics of past eras are presented, yet humans and their feelings and desires have remained unchanged. Desires and impulses of the heart are permanent… the transitoriness is simply ignored, until pleasure dissipates like a cloud steam into the blue sky.
An installation with 16 stations by the artist Sylvie Proidl, stations in which emotions are created with words and sounds, to be experienced in a fleeting moment. The sound created by wintermute supports, in its artificiality, the transitory transportation of elements, and Simon-Niklas Scheuring interprets the metamorphosis with poems ranging from Heine to Becker.

POEMS
Theodor Fontane IM GARTEN
Michael Becker TAGTRAUM
Max Dauthendey NENN DICH MEIN WIESEN
Michael Becker GESCHENK FÜR DICH
Michael Becker )) ) ) ( ( ((
Michael Becker IM GARTEN
Franz Grillparzer AUF DIE HÄNDE KÜSST
Michael Becker GEFUNDEN
Michael Becker IN DIR
Eugen Roth ALS SICH DIE ROSE
Rainer Maria Rilke BLAUE HORTENSIE
Reiner Stahl UNGLÜCKLICHE LIEBE
Erich Kästner SACHLICHE ROMANZE
Heinrich Heine MEIN HERZ
Charles Baudelaire DER TOD DER LIEBENDEN
Michael Becker HEARTBREAK HOTEL