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Ingo Warnke: Totentanz 2

 

Ingo Warnke: Totentanz 3

Dance of Death

2005

Space installation on the occasion of the concert project “Mitten wir im Leben sind” in cooperation with the church musician Wilko Ossoba, 2004. Locations where the performance took place: Eiderhalle Flintbek (Germany) and St. Katharinenkirche Kirchbarkau (Germany), 25. and 26.09.2004
The installation refers to the central composition of Franz Liszt “Totentanz“ concert and also is based on the creative debate on the mediaeval demonstration of the Dance of Death of the Marienkirche in Lübeck (Germany) and of Reval (historical name of Tallinn in Estonia). Six urns out of bog oak with a height between 80 and 190cm and a diameter between 25 and 60 cm are standing in fields of bog oak shavings in two different shaving sizes, caption with an extract of the Dance of Death of Reval in Old Middle High German, pictured projection with the crucifix of Barkau in front of a background made of bog oak shavings as a digital montage.

 

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