Imagination Color

A performance for
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Jörg Andrees _ acting, performing
Helene Ravn _ painting, Performing
Victoria Mun _ vocal
Udo Stunz _ saxophone, Gongs
Ingo Ross _ acustic und electronic drums and percussion

Introduction

When Goethe published his Theorie of Colour for the first time in 1810, he was shure he would research into colour in his time.
Tho hundret years later his Theorie of Colour has lost none of its explosivness and contemporary relevance. On contary, in many fileds today Goethes approach is consideres to be a valid foundation for the understanding of colour. In teaching, medicine, therapy, colour theory an, of course, in art, Goethes approach is no longer dismissed.
The group of artists Farbraum, who have since their foundation 15 years ago interacted intensivly with Goethes Theoty of Colours in their scientific and artistic work,have evolved the projekt Imagination Colour for the 200^th anniversary of the Theory of Colour.
So, just as Goethe never felt a discrepancy between his scientific and artistic work, Imagination Colour also follows his approach in its representation of the scientific and artistic implicationa of the Theory of Colour.
In this way, there emerged, whole, from out of Goethe´s mind, a collaboration between science and the art that offers ambitious entertainment value.

Structure

Prolog
The performance begins with some light-dark imaginations.
Before the background of an archaic soundscape a colourless shadowplay unfolds that, little by little, will compress the primevel colour palarities of yellow and blue. The motion that unfolds with the colour will next be followed by a line and then, these, together, will coagulate on the canvas in a solid structure.

Improvisation
IIn the following passage themes from the Theory of Colour, such as polarity, intensification and colour tone will be presented through short textes.
With the help of audience constributions thr artists try to capture these themes in a collective improvisation. These inner pictures, through the artist´s interaction, become a color Imagination.

Epilogue
In the course of these improvisations there will be distilled from the shapes on the canvas a painterly unity free of outer neccessities. Colour and form transcend their organisation.
The structure of the linecaught during the prologue is set free and steps out of the picture.