Klaus Obermaier's video: trio Klaus Obermaier Ars Electronica Futurelab

trio, excerpt from: Take a Number, Leave Your Head – http://www.exile.at/stageofparticipation/ A unique mix of lounge, performance, audience participation and party. dance/performance: Michael Gross, Katharina Pfiel, Barbara Vuzem choreography, music: Klaus Obermaier With a view towards the future, Klaus Obermaier and the Ars Electronica Futurelab have recourse to a historical art movement that still packs a punch even as it nears 100: the anti-art movement Dada with its predilection for the anarchic and absurd. 98 years after the first Salon Dada in Zürich's Cabaret Voltaire, a unique setting entitled Take a Number, Leave Your Head takes the Dada mentality that once rained down abuse on the bourgeoisie and lets it loose on our high-tech present. Club Absurd In the basement beneath the Ars Electronica Futurelab, a temporary club is set up featuring a bar and interactive zones in which visitors can get acquainted with Dada poetry. The space's soundscape can be distorted by mere gestures. And suddenly the ludicrous dramatics begin: actors and dancers morphing into virtual copies of those present. In this dramaturgical setting, audience members together with professional performers and high-tech tools create a setting for digital and physical absurdities.