Clara Ianni
Resurrection (2024)
Performance
Photo: Clara Ianni
Dates
21.9.2024
Location
Mausoleum, Graz
Production specifics
Commissioned and produced by City of Graz and steirischer herbst ’24
For the first time, steirischer herbst and the City of Graz are jointly awarding the Werner Fenz Grant for Art in Public Space, whose 2024 winner is Clara Ianni.
Her Resurrection is a multifaceted, genre-defying work. It consists of a ritual at the Graz Mausoleum with newly composed choir music, and a procession toward Stadtpark, where, in culmination, an ephemeral, performative monument is created.
The project focuses on props and backdrops from depots of Graz theaters that were once produced to represent nature. These trees, stones, flowers, and clouds are usually stored and forgotten, waiting to be discarded sooner or later. Ianni brings them back to nature to create a political and environmental fiction in which nothing dies and humans and nonhumans become comrades.
The work as a whole explores the relationship between nature, capitalism, and religion, focusing on exhaustion and regeneration. In the current context of political, economic, and ecological collapse, Ianni’s work seeks to imagine how to live after exhaustion, after the end, how to regenerate and how to resurrect.
Music: Nina Hotimsky and Lucas de Sá
Choirmaster: Matthias Unterkofler
With the Graz University Choir: Noah Donauer, Anna Galler, Sophie Hollwöger, Evelyn Krall, Gerhild Lexner, Regina Lexner, Anton Mellacher, Martin Mense, Armin Preiss, Christina Rapposch, Miguel Rey Mazon, Svetlana Savekina, Anna-Sophia Schindelwig, Max Schüßler, Marlene Schwar, Spiridon Johann Stathopoulos, Nicolas Stojkovic, Tim Tschörner
As well as with: Friedrich Becke, Leon Erdödy, Glory Ewute, Sophie Hauck, Anna Major, Namiya Molina, Boróka Müller-Pál, Melanie Ogris, Sarina-Danielle Pinczar, Flora Renhardt, Beatrix Somweber, Ylvie Straub, Shaira Williams
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