BALL THEATER ENTER THE FACTORY
10.05. - 28.07.2024
a program of
Music | Performance | Architecture
curated by
Studio Muoto
Georgi Stanishev + Clémence La Sagna
Lennart Wolff
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Photo © Gilles Delalex
Exotourisme im Ball Theater
13.06.2024 | 8 pm
ARIS Quartet
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy
String Quartet No. 1 in E flat major Opus 12
Lukas Ligeti
String Quartet No. 4 "Neostasis"
Ludwig van Beethoven
String Quartet in A minor Opus 132
Box office 20 €
"Ball Theater is an installation designed to awaken our desire for utopia."
Studio Muoto, Atelier Georgi Stanishev
"Enter the Factory" is the second chapter of Ball Theater, the French contribution to the 18th Venice Architecture Biennale. The modular metallic half-sphere of the Ball Theater will symbolically return from a site of presentation to a site of production, exiting the French Pavillion's beaux-arts interior in Venice for an open-air site in the center of the Techne Sphere Leipzig. Clad in a blue welding curtain, the newly conceived and radically expanded Ball Theater evokes the legacy of constructivism and modernist workers' theater. Here, the half globe seemingly orbits Oscar Niemeyer's spherical restaurant that hovers above the site. Together, they become a stage, projection surface, and resonance chamber: "machines for acting." A program of concerts, performances, and workshops explores the relationship between sound, music, movement, and architectural production. The installation and program are conceived by the Ball Theater design team –studio Muoto, Atelier Georgi Stanishev– and curator and architect Lennart Wolff and produced by Anica Kehr / Techne Sphere in collaboration with Institut français.
Ball Theater at the 18th International Venice Architecture Biennale was a project by studio Muoto –Gilles Delalex and Yves Moreau- and Georgi Stanishev (lead curators), Jos Auzende (associate curator), Clémence La Sagna and Georgi Stanishev (scenography), Cedric Pilooski, Alain Français, Thomas Fourny (sound installation) and Anna Tardivel (programming).
