by Jörg Laue/Lose Combo
provisional archive of a performative cartography

In ATLAS‘ WIRBEL, everything that is called Atlas can become a fulcrum. The Eurocentric view of the world is caught up in a maelstrom of political, geological, architectural and literary references to the Atlas myth: The Titan „Atlas“, who holds the weight of the world on his shoulders, has always been only a particular form of map as ana carrier of images. The Atlas Mountains – in antiquity the westernmost end of the known world – become the topological reference point for a critique of Eurocentrism in performative cartography. The first cervical vertebra of the same name, whose special anatomical function in fact enables us to constantly change perspective, becomes a symbol for the structure of the entire project.

Idea/installation/text/sounds/video Jörg Laue performance Claudia Splitt, Florian Feigl Sonor Quartett Susanne Zapf (violin), Wojciech Garbowski (violin), Nikolaus Schlierf (viola), Konstantin Manaev (cello) technical director/light design Fabian Bleisch / sound design Mattef Kuhlmey video/digital imaging Florian Fischer artistic collaborators Johanna Akva, Nina DeLudemann
Design container
Camera Maximilian Hilsamer editing Jörg Laue sound Mattef Kuhlmey, Jörg Laue web design Christopher Martin

LOSE COMBO, founded by Jörg Laue in 1994, realizes hybrid works of performance, concert, sound, video and light installations – boundless time-spaces that radically challenge the experience of the present. More information, photo and video footage of ATLAS‘ WIRBEL | CONTAINER at www.lose-combo.de