Lucerne Festival announces competition
Lucerne Festival and the Lucerne Museum of Art are jointly calling for the diverse relationships between visual art and music, visual expression and sound to be made the subject of a competition: in 2014, the interface between the two disciplines will be promoted for the second time.
The competition is aimed at young, up-and-coming artists who develop a project on the theme of "Psyche" alone, in pairs or in threes. "Psyche" is the general motto of Lucerne Festival 2014, which will take place from August 15 to September 14. The violinist Midori and the soprano Barbara Hannigan will act as "artiste etoile", while the Korean Unsuk Chin and the Austrian Johannes Maria Staud will be "composer-in-residence".
This year, clarinetist Nils Fischer and light artist Kurt Laurenz Theinert created the first soundzzz project under the motto "Recode Revolution" in the "Revolution" exhibition at the Lucerne Art Museum. The museum space, exhibits and audience served as a projection surface for them - and thus became part of a light and sound spectacle. Numerous improvisation artists from Lucerne took part in the grand finale on September 13: dancers, performers and musicians.
The project now selected by the jury will be realized during the Lucerne Festival in summer 2014 in the exhibitions at the Lucerne Art Museum. The deadline for applications is Friday, February 14, 2014.
More info at www.lucernefestival.ch/en/lucerne_festival_academy/soundzz_2014/
