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The performance SUPERQUADRA tells the story of the end of architecture.
Designs of new worlds can be found in the Tower of Babel, in ideal cities from the late Middle Ages to the American modern era. Landscapes of concrete and glass stretch through the South American jungle and across the Italian Alps. With the desire for a planned, more orderly and ultimately more just society, systems and calculations are created on the drawing boards and computers of the centuries, bringing forward ideal proportions and relationships; planned cities and buildings for a perfect life. Leonardo da Vinci, Albert Speer and Walt Disney work in fever on the axes of their new orders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once created, its residents find themselves in the beautiful new grids. And at some point, the inevitable happens: In the futuristic Super-Quadra 67 building complex, Oscar N. begins to make his own architectural improvements. Little by little, the building mutates, while other residents also begin to give shape to their own interests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SUPERQUADRA is a one-hour live video performance. The stage is taken up by a landscape of sets, miniatures and models. Puppets and actors act in front of cameras and tell the story of Super-Quadra 67. At the same time, the story is intertwined with documentary material of past utopias and planned cities.
In the collaboration of an animator with a programmer, a musician, as well as a character player, an atmospherically dense composition of different means is created. The live animation film interweaves views of the apartment complex with computer simulation, texts and effects. The result is a multi-view collage that spreads out before the audience on a curved panoramic screen. Programmed code reacts to film scenes and spoken word.
SUPERQUADRA shows the construction of a city, the making of a film, and a research on the question of how architecture plans society and how society designs architecture. The work on the material takes place before the eyes of the viewers. At the same time, each film image is connected to the moment of its production: living spaces and city views are constructed on stage and manipulated in front of the camera. The transformation of Super-Quadra 67 becomes a real event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Brasilia has no history, the city is pure theory. An ideal, the optimum - but only on the drawing board. Brasilia is a backdrop. Thought out and conceived down to the last detail. It seems to be perfect. This city. This machine. The layout of the city resembles an airplane. More future is probably not possible.
It was not suited to real life. People don't like to live here. Obviously, they're not necessarily looking for an ideal. They're looking for a home.\"<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Andrea Schorsch: Brasilia \u2013 die Zukunftsstadt von gestern \/ ntv \/ 27. 11. 2015<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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