Eight-channel video performance: »Arbeit und Freizeit (1) – Solitude«, [Work and Leisure (1) – Solitude], ECLAT-Festival Neue Musik Stuttgart

Concept, space, video and direction: Daniel Kötter

Sound design: Manfred Deppe and Matthias Neumann

with Dubravka Sekulic, Gwen van den Eijnde, Ritta Baddoura, Christoph Ogiermann, Anita Carey-Yard, Marieanne Roth, Ernst Ludwig and Martha Fauser

Four artistic fellows plus four Akademie employees = eight spaces and eight ways of working. The Akademie Schloss Solitude is a place to exchange artistic practices and to network. But at the same time it is an artistic institution, as well as a romantic retreat to a place far removed from the artistic production’s commodity trade. »Arbeit und Freizeit« documents a 60-minute real-time excerpt of the Akademie between work and leisure, between art, service and representation. What and who produces this arrangement and what and whom is produced by it? Networked geniuses or solitary network artists, workhorses or people of leisure? A musique concrète.

The project is a cooperation of the Akademie Schloss Solitude with the labor für musik:theater Berlin.

Admission 14 euros; 9 euros reduced.
Tickets available via the Theaterhaus Stuttgart. Tel.: 0711. 40 20 720, or via e-mail tickets@theaterhaus.com, www.theaterhaus.com.

The ECLAT Festival, running from February 4 to 8, 2008, is a Musik der Jahrhunderte event in connection with the Akademie Schloss Solitude, supported by the Kulturamt der Stadt Stuttgart and from the Ministry for Science, Research and Art Baden-Württemberg in cooperation with SWR.

Daniel Kötter (*1975 in Bergisch Gladbach) has worked as a musical author and dramaturg since 1997 and, since 2000, as director and video artist in the area of the contemporary musical theater. He was a fellow at the Akademie in 2008.