INSTALLATION
Status Quo: Act I—IV
Status Quo: Act I—IV
2019
Hand printed cretonne, glazed ceramics, vintage postcard, glass prism, copies of archive material (exchangeable and ongoing).
—Dramatic Opera in 4 acts. 12 Scenes. Kaleidoscopic happenings. Time: Present. Background: Screen, picturing starsystems, our globe, different continents … Music: All existing musical systems according to stage and screen.
—Dramatic Opera in 4 acts. 12 Scenes. Kaleidoscopic happenings. Time: Present. Background: Screen, picturing starsystems, our globe, different continents … Music: All existing musical systems according to stage and screen.
In 1938 the Leipzig-born and NY-based ultra-modernist composer Johanna M. Beyer (1888—1944) composed two fragments of music, intended as part of her visionary unrealized political opera Status Quo—the prelude Music of the Spheres and the final movement Dance (for a full Orchestra).