Winter Performing Arts Festival
Art Stage Performance Series Vol.58.
Hotel Modern [KAMP]
We are opening Winter Performing Arts Festival: We invite to Hotel Modern! [Kamp] is quite a unique puppet live animation. Thousands of eight centimeter tall handmade puppets represent the prisoners and their executioners. The actors move through the set like giant war reporters, filming the horrific events with miniature cameras. This winter, enjoy this great performing art in the art museum!
photo:Herman Helle |
photo:Herman Helle |
photo:Herman Helle |
Date of Performance:
Wednesday 24th Entry18:30 Open19:00
Thursday 25th Entry13:30 Open14:00
Entry18:30 Open19:00
February 2010,
Venue: The Museum Hall
Admission Charge: Advance tickets 3000yen/On the day 3500yen
Student advanced ticket 2000yen /On the day 2500yen.
*Please refrain from attending with preschool age children.
*Holders of physical disability cards, care assistance cards, disability cards, war wounded veteran cards, A-Bomb victim health cards, and 1 accompanying caregiver will receive a 30% discount.(Advance Tickets 2100yen On the day 2450yen)
(Student’s Advanced Ticket: 1400yen, On the day1750yen. )
*Advance tickets for holders of physical disability cards are handled at the Prefectural Art Museum Shop and the Kochi Prefectural Cultural Hall.
Buy the Advanced ticket at: The Museum shop, Kochi Prefectural Cultural Hall, Koshin play guide,LAWSON.
Brought to you by The Museum of Art, Kochi
Supported by:Embassy of the kingdom of the netherlands NHK Kochi ・Kochi Shimbun・RKC Kochi Broad Casting・KUTV Kochi・FM Kochi・KSS San San TV・KCB Kochi Cable TV and Kochi City FM.
planning and production:PARC
KAMP
An enormous scale model of Auschwitz fills the stage. Overcrowded barracks, a railway track, a gateway with the words "Arbeit Macht Frei". Hotel Modern attempts to imagine the unimaginable: the greatest mass murder in history, committed in a purpose-built city. Sixty years after its evacuation, Auschwitz is a dark icon of the modern era, a mythical catastrophe, almost a fairytale. What occurred there is difficult to believe, sometimes even for those who experienced it. In KAMP, Hotel Modern attempts to re-enact the historical reality. The model of the Kamp is brought to life on stage: thousands of 8-centimeter tall handmade puppets represent the prisoners and their executioners. The actors move through the set like giant war reporters, filming the horrific events with miniature cameras; the audience becomes the witness.
photo:Leo Van Velzen |
photo:Leo Van Velzen |
photo:Leo Van Velzen |
Hotel Modern
Hotel Modern theatre group was founded in 1997. Its members are actresses Arlène Hoornweg and Pauline Kalker and visual artist Herman Helle. In The Great War, they collaborated with sound artist Ruud van der Pluijm. They blend visual art, puppetry, music and film in evocative productions. Scale models are of central importance in their theatrical universe: they provide an opportunity to view the world, literally, from a macro perspective. This is unique in the theatre world and allows them to approach their subjects in a completely new way. Hotel Modern is idealistic in the sense that they believe the watching and experiencing of theatre can encourage reconciliation. They attempt to offer solace to a society and a world in which people sometimes seem fearful of one another. This consolation is not achieved by creating a saccharine performance, but by representing harsh reality in a refined, poetic manner. Hotel Modern performs worldwide and the group has won several national and international theatre prizes. More information can be found on their artistic and innovative.
Website www.hotelmodern.nl



















