Nasca, on perspective
Dorninger - soundart
Wolfgang Dorninger
Nasca, on perspective 2006
Multimedia performance
O.K Centrum für Gegenwartskunst, Linz
Nasca - textile1: Animation of textile by Dorninger (Nasca, 2006)
Wolfgang Dorninger: concept, texts, music, animations and visualization
Dietmar Bruckmayr: live video modulations, animations
Siegmar Aigner: vocals
Mex Wolfsteiner: percussion
Performances:
3. Februar 2006 Premiere at O.K Centrum für Gegenwartskunst, Linz, Österreich
4. Februar 2006 OK Centrum für Gegenwartskunst, Linz, Österreich
6. Februar 2006 Austria at arco 06 La Casa Encendida, Madrid, Spanien
21. June 2006 - Rhiz, Wien - DVD Presentation
22.3.2007 - FILE SYmposium 2007 - Lecture on "Nasca, on perspective" at OI FUTURO Centro Cultural, Rio de Janeiro
23.3.2007 - Hipersonica Festival 2007 - Museum of Modern Art (MAM) Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
26.6.2007 - Linzfest 2007 - Lentos Bühne
29.1.2009 - Treffpunkt Neue Musik - ORF Linz
Screenings:
December 2006 - INPORT - International Video-Performance Art Festival, Tallinn, Estonia
9. März 2007 - Zauber, Salvador de Bhia, Brasil
DVD:
"Nasca, on perspective" by Dorninger base records
keywords perspective:
Nasca Code, Nasca lines, perspective, diagrammatic patterns, textile forms of structure, 2D > 3D transitions, impossible perspectives, algorithmic perspectives, modular perspectives, ....
keywords performance:
Realtime 3-D, musical parameters trigger algorithmic animations, 3D-animation, interactive sound / image creation, algorithmic
composition, drones, soundscapes, granular synthesis, ....
„Nasca, über die Perspektive“ is the second part of a trilogy on archaic cultures that have created outstanding cultural achievements in desert regions, but without leaving information enabling later eras to read them. These cultures placed signs that are so confusing to posterity that their achievements can only be incipiently explained by science or solely hypothetically. They blossomed into high cultures just as quickly as they subsequently vanished, leaving unique art works and cultural edifices that were hardly in relation to the fertility and natural riches of their respective regions. By our parameters, these works appear incomprehensible, meaningless, enigmatic – not of this world, for which reason they have repeatedly evoked "extraterrestrial" explanations (Däniken & Co).
Dorninger has reflected on these cultures with complex themes such as disappearance (Part 1) and perspectives (Part 2).
Part 1 deals with the society of the Hisatsinom in the US southwest. The rapid downfall, dated around 1350, of this highly developed Native American culture in the Four Corners region (Utah, Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico) is ideally suited for reflection on disappearance in the here and now: through media synchronization, standardized rituals as "blessing" for a consumer society; but also being imprisoned in musical patterns. The media opera "Hisatsinom, on disappearance" premiered in 2001 at the Festival 4020 in Linz, Austria.
In the second part of the trilogy Dorninger deals with the culture of the Nasca (200 BC – 600 AD) in southern Peru. The Nasca etched over-sized drawings of animals (geoglyphs), kilometer-long lines and numerous gigantic trapezoid and triangular planes into the chalky soil covered by a layer of rubble. There are more than twenty scientific theories and even more speculations about this desert culture that, as it appears, etched images for the gods, "the world's biggest astronomy book" (Prof. Paul Kossok), or perhaps simply markers for subterranean waterflows into the ground. Or were the Nasca maybe even bird-people, who saw their habitat from the perspective of the condor?
The fact is that these gigantic, artistically skilled drawings are barely recognizable from the ground and only reveal themselves to the eye of the beholder from the air. So why were they made, when they would have to remain – from a human scale! - hidden from the perspective of that time?! The delicate lines and figures of the Nasca, which have been preserved up to the present through the interplay of the specific soil, the lack of wind and the extreme dryness in southern Peru, have been placed under the protection of the UNESCO since 1995.
Perspectives is thus the theme and the framework of the piece "Nasca, on Perspectives". Similarly to the conceptional approach for "Hisatsinom, on disappearance", Dorninger started from the Nasca Lines to pursue several directions. The perspectivally "impossible" objects and drawings of M. C. Escher (1898 – 1972), for instance, or works by the Italian sculptor and architect Filippo Brunelleschi (1377 – 1446), who was responsible for the dome of the cathedral Santa Maria del Fiore and numerous other important buildings in his home city of Florence and is considered a pioneer of humanist architecture and the discoverer of the mathematically constructible perspective. The main part of “Nasca, on perspective” opens up a visual and acoustic discourse on algorithmic arts, mapping, diagrammatic patterns, textile forms of structure, bits and spaces, 2D > 3D transitions, algorithmic and modular perspectives.
The implementation of "Nasca, on Perspectives" will take place in a multimedia and spatially encompassing installation with a concert; video projections and realtime 3-D image processions driven by music and algorithms of Nasca Lines.
Part 3 of the trilogy “Shambala, an utopian projection” (worktitle) will take Dorninger to Tibet/Asia and will be presented in 2009.
“Nasca, on perspective” had its premiere in February 2006 at the O.K Center for Contemporary Art in Linz, Austria and at La Casa Encendida (Madrid) as an official part of the Austrian showcase at the Arco art fair 2006 in Madrid.
The DVD “Nasca, on perspective” (base records) was presented live at the Rhiz in Vienna in June 2006.
SPONSORS: Kulturamt der Stadt Linz, Kulturabteilung des Landes OÖ, BKA Abt. II/2, Eisserer & Dorninger GesbR, SKE-Fond der Austro Mechana, Österreichische Botschaft Brasilia,
Thanks to: Gabriele Kling (photographer, driver, organisation), Dietrich Schulze & all members of Verein "Dr. Maria Reiche - Linien und Figuren der Nazca-Kultur in Peru" e.V. - Dresden, Jacobo Manopla Cimerman (Palpa), the whole team O.K Centrum Linz, the people from La Casa Encendida, ..... and all the people from Nasca & Palpa who guided me that well!
Wolfgang Dorninger is member of association
Verein "Dr. Maria Reiche - Linien und Figuren der Nazca-Kultur in Peru" e.V. - Dresden
More info: here!
