by Jörg Laue/Lose Combo
performance | concert | installation

With reference to the Cinquecento art work Galleria delle Carte Geografiche – still the largest map representation in the world to be found in the Vatican Museums – makropolis outlines the model of a global community beyond territorial borders. Within the hybrid structure of the Galleria delle Carte Geografiche the performers encounter battle scenes from the Punic Wars, accompany Cicero through ancient necropolises, encounter Buckminster Fuller’s visionary world map designs and find the tomb of the Greek mathematician Archimedes in the courtyard of a Sicilian hotel. Thus they unfold a history of macropolises that ranges from ancient cosmology and mathematics to Jorge Luis Borges‘ cartographic concept of science and John Cage’s enduring world sound map thinking; from the democratically constituted Greek polis to the dystopian billion-strong macropolises in science fiction.

Idea/installation/text/sound/video: Jörg Laue
Performance: Claudia Splitt, Florian Feigl
Ensemble KNM Berlin: Rebecca Lenton (flute) Carol Mc Connell (clarinet) Pengh-Hui Wand (bassoon) Jack Adler-McKean (tuba) Theodor Flindell (violin) Cosima Gerhardt (cello) Jonathan Heilbron (double bass)
Technical director/light design: Fabian Bleisch
Sound design: Mattef Kuhlmey
Video/digital imaging: Florian Fischer
Artistic collaboration/clothes: Nina DeLudemann

Following the performances ATLAS’ WIRBEL, Green Line and pacific aspects – makropolis is part four out of five of the project series performaps which explores the possibilities of time-based artistic cartography. The series final and concluding performance is WETTER.

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, photos and video footage of makropolis at www.lose-combo.de