Fundamentalisten
There once was a news paper report about a freighter and his captain sitting off the coast of England. It could have been written about them, too: masterly gone aground, a quick solution is not within sight. Because «Fundamentalisten» is a piece about the fanatic quest for the truth through artistic expression, for the radical integrity of a lie. We are looking upon a lunar landscape with an almost deserted language research station, from what seems light-years away we can hear a text that describes the personal and global events of a crumbling world.
Schauplatz International is studying Eugène Viollet-Le-Duc and John Ruskin, two historic figures from the 19th century. They grab the works of Halldor Laxness, the only Icelandic Nobel Prize winner, they reach out to Werner Herzog, James Webb and to the radical subjectivism of Karl Ove Knausgard. They outline a world of text, image, and sound from which you don’t want to emerge.
After «Idealisten», the group Schauplatz International – about which «Der Bund» argues that they advance into areas of artistic self-reflection into which other groups would not dare to go without extra oxygen supply – is showing the middle part of a trilogy with this piece, «Fundamentalisten». In 2016 «Egoisten» will bring the trilogy to a close.
In German with Icelandic live interpretation.
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