1992
Niemandsland is the experience of disorientation and loss, a video installation that interacts with the theatrical staging in real time. Niemandsland consists of three stagings, three “no man’s lands”: Niemandsland (October 1992, Innsbruck), Terra di nessuno (February 1993, Rome), No Man’s Land (October 1993, Berlin). At the same time, Niemandsland is also a radio work produced with ORF / Kunstradio, by Isabella Bordoni and Roberto Paci Dalò, listen here.
One of the work’s principal reflections is on language, a process made possible by the presence of the figure of the lyric actor (not speaking voices, but voices of the flesh). Other voices are superimposed upon these, together with an instrumental ensemble and sonic portraits of cities: the orality of the word lies at the centre of the theatrical discourse. Niemandsland is a non-place that constitutes a tacit territory of recognition, and also looks to the work of Walter Benjamin, in its fragmentariness and totality.
