NIEMANDSLAND – Eine Reise zu dem, was zwis­chen uns liegt
Winner | Interior Design | 2021

NIEMANDSLAND – Eine Reise zu dem, was zwis­chen uns liegt

The installation “No Man's Land - A Journey to What Lies Between Us” is a project that can hardly be categorized. Its creator, Zurich-based artist, director, and musician Dimitri de Perrot describes it as a “partially mirrored immersive space, permeated by a driving composition of sounds and noises from everyday life.” The audience can expect a 60-minute piece played in a loop, somewhere between theatre, concert, installation, and party. The scenography consists of an empty hall sparsely lit by coloured light, in which four podiums invite the audience to sit down or walk around. Corresponding with the podiums are suspended ceiling elements. Both are partially mirrored. Curtains delimit and structure the space. Numerous loudspeakers, invisibly distributed at different locations and individually controlled, spread an acoustic network in the room that constantly changes depending on the location. Sound becomes sculptural here and a space-forming element. The interplay of sound, space and light gathers and disperses the audience of max. 40 people, who in this way become co-creators of the installation.

Comments of the nominators

An exciting scenography that manages to achieve a powerful effect with quite modest means. With his transdisciplinary narrative installation, Dimitri der Perot makes the concept of “space” tangible in very different ways.

Compa­nies:

Dimitri de Perrot / Studio DdP

Team Members:

Dimitri de Perrot (Idee, Musik, Bühnen­bild & Künst­lerische Leitung), Anna Papst (Dramaturgie), Balz Bach­mann (Co-Kompo­si­tion Musik), Karl Egli (Licht­de­sign), Max Molling (Sound­de­sign),
Bühnen­bild: Franziska Born (Design und Recherche), Leo Hoff­mann (Entwick­lung und Konstruk­tion), Werk­statt Gess­ner­allee (Assis­tenz Konstruk­tion)

Aufnahmen Musiker:innen und Stimmen:

Lara Barsacq, Marc Bodnar, Peter Bräker, Miro Calt­a­girone, Jack Ellis, Laslo de Perrot, Nino de Perrot, Michael Fehr, Tarek Halaby, Laurence Mayor, Dimitri Jourde, Jeff Loise­lette, Gaël Santis­teva, Julian Sarto­rius, Michi Sauter, Isabel Sören, Fred Ulysse.
ICST / Peter Färber (Soundrecherchen), Peter Tillessen (Musikas­sis­tenz), Lukas Bärfuss, Christoph Meier, Imanuel Schipper (Dramatur­gis­cher Think Tank)
Jorge Bompadre (Bühnentechnik)

Produk­tion:

Studio DdP

Kopro­duk­tion:

21. Inter­na­tionale Schillertage, EinTanzHaus Mannheim, Gess­ner­allee Zürich, ICST – Insti­tute for Computer Music and Sound Tech­nology @ ZHdK, Nation­althe­ater Mannheim NTM, Südpol Luzern, ZeitRäume Basel – Bien­nale für neue Musik und Architektur.

Partner – Theater:

Le Centquatre Paris

Mit der Unter­stützung von:

Stadt Zürich Kultur, Fach­stelle Kultur Kanton Zürich, Pro Helvetia Schweizer Kulturs­tiftung, Ernst Göhner Stiftung, Stiftung Corymbo, Landis & Gyr Stiftung, Zentrale Prat­teln.

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