Herz an Herz

Herz an Herz performances in Brussels and Berlin

 

Merzedes Sturm-Lie · Herz an Herz.WAV

Performance project and sound sculpture, 2020-22
Material: megaphone, iphone, voice / Duration: 10 min.

The performance represents a time loop, with traces from an autopsy, industrial-social recordings and lamentation. During the performance I use pre-recorded audio via my mobile, and move inbetween the audience while talking and singing into a megaphone. The performance also includes reworked sound from 'Liebestod', the final act of the opera 'Tristan und Isolde' by Wagner.

Excerpt from the performance-text:

“Now come the most difficult pictures. The first photo resembles the previous one. The full skull. You can see the brains sticking out. The next two photos are of a table. They took the brain out, laid it on the table and took a picture. It might seem weird, but that's how it's done, the brain really gets pulled out. He’s lying on his back and a picture is taken of his head. But now half of his skull is empty because the brains have been removed and the other half of the skull is next to it. You might have read it in the report...
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You in darkness. I in light!
There to pledge to you eternal love
To consecrate you to death
In company with myself
Heart on your heart
Mouth on mouth”

 

Herz an Herz sound sculpture

Performed at
DID YOU KISS THE SPOT TO MAKE IT WELL, Des Esseintes, Hoeilaart (BE) 2020.
Tunnel Affection, ICC Tunnel, Berlin (DE), 2022.
Sound sculpture exhibited in Spare us the gutter, SeeU, Brussels (BE), 2021.

 

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