Anfang gut. Alles gut : Aktualisierungen der futuristischen Oper Sieg über die Sonne (1913) = Actualizations of the futurist opera Victory over the sun (1913)
The Modernism (Music)Victory Over the Sun, which was performed twice at an interval of two days at Saint Petersberg's Lunapark Theater in 1913, sought to "create a collective work based on language, painting and music." This programmatic statement was formulated by the opera's authors--poets Velimir Khebnikov and Aleksei Kruchenykh, composer and painter Mikhail Matyushin, and painter Kazimir Malevich--who wanted to construct an "anti-harmonic" work to counter the characteristic style of the time. ... In 2008, we collectively set out to actualize the opera Victory Over the Sun with an exhibition that culminated at the Aktualisierungsraum (Space for Actualization) run by Nina Kol̈ler and Kerstin Stakenmeier in Hamburg
Print Book, German, 2012
Walther König, Köln, 2012