Vineta
Vineta (1998) was an art performance act by AKT.
The basis was the play Vineta by Jura Soyfer. It describes a city under water, where time stands still and memory loss and apathy characterise the inhabitants - an image of Vienna during the 1930es.
Stories about the city that sank surface in folktales, church books, romantic literature and scientific descriptions. Tales from Northern Germany tell the story of a rich, medieval commerce town disappearing in the sea, surfacing every year at St. John's Eve.
By Herder, Heine and Hoffmann one finds texts about Vineta - and in music by Johannes Brahms, who set music to a poem by Wilhlem Müller and by Puhdys in the song Stadt unter Wasser.
Information
(Objekt ID 39635)| Object type | Production |
| Premiere | March 20, 1998 |
| Produced by | AKT, |
| Based on | Vineta by Jura Soyfer |
| Audience | Adults |
| Language | German and Norwegian |
| Keywords | Performance |
| Running period | March 20, 1998 |
| Website | SYSSEL Tone Avenstroup |
In the program text AKT wrote the following, among other things, about Vineta:
"The city that suddenly disappeared - the myth of Vineta has parallels to the myth of Atlantis, but to us Vineta is closer in time and geography. There are archaeologists who claim to have found Vineta. In Wollin Dr. W. Filipowiak has found remains from a Slav habitation which had some 8000-10 000 inhabitants during the 1100es. But two historians in Berlin have, based on the Oder flooding the summer of 1997 found evidence that Vineta may have been close to Barth. There a Vineta museum opened in 1998.
Out of this material we have made a stage collage. The installation we perform it in is a projection machinery consisting of overhead projectors, half transparent canvases, rotating mirrors and water basins with air pumps."
In Of Other Rooms (1967) Michel Foucault wrote the following, among other things:
"There are also, probably in every culture, in every civilisation real places – places that do exist and are formed in the very founding of society – which are something like counter-sites, a kind of effectively enacted utopia in which the real sites, all other real sites that can be found within the culture, are simultaneously represented, contested and inverted, I shall call them, by the way of contrast to utopias, heterotopias."
Supported by Arts Council Norway.
SOURCE:
Tone Avenstroup's private archive, donated by Tone Avenstroup.12.05.2012
| Name | Role |
|---|---|
| Jura Soyfer | – Author |
| Tone Avenstroup | – Script |
| Otmar Wagner | – Music |
| Tone Avenstroup | – Room |
| Otmar Wagner | – Room |
| Tone Avenstroup | – Performer |
| Gurå Mathiesen Bjørre | – Performer (norsk versjon) |
| Otmar Wagner | – Performer |
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| March 18, 2000 – Christianssands kunstforening | View |
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| March 21, 1998 – Podewil, Podewil Center for Contemporary Arts | View |
| March 20, 1998 – Podewil, Podewil Center for Contemporary Arts | Worldwide premiere |