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| as lecture-performance together with Rudi Laermans at Marres, Maastricht, 2017 (photo: Rob.van.Hoorn) |
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| live observations & commenting during concerts, 2011 - ongoing |
Video of the first observation in the Singel, Antwerp, 30 September 2011.
'Audience Observations' is an ongoing project. The concept is used to produce works and knowledge on the performative qualities of audiences in theaters, concert halls and elsewhere. It goes along with thoughts and works on the relation between public spaces and the space of the public: both places of performing forces.
'Audience Observations' contains the following works until now:
selection of recent performances:
Introduction speech:
"Good evening, my name is David Helbich and I am your audience interventionist and tonights AUDIENCE OBSERVER.
Which means, that I will for the sake of my research on audience behaviors observe you through out the evening from this position and I will report some of my observations at one point later in the evening to share with you what I found out.
I do this for your own good. My mission is to accentuate the roll of an audience in a concert situation like this. I call this Keine-Pause, No Break or Geen Pause, because I think that nothing can really interrupt the experience of a concert as a whole.
So, I'll observe you during the pieces and between the pieces.
The program book contains an alternative set of PROGRAM NOTES. As you might have seen already, the notes are not about the particular compositions, but about the changes between the pieces and things which are also part of this concert, even though you can't hear them.
Following the convention, it is time for your first clapping for the entrance of the pianist."
PROGRAM NOTES : link to pdf of the program notes for the performance in the Single, Antwerp
The first Audience Observations was part of "KEINE-PAUSE / NO BREAK: audience observations and alternative program notes", a performance concept, commisioned by, premiered and created for the extended piano recital '492kg' by Frederik Croene, who played - while I watched - pieces by Marianthi Papalexandri-Alexandri, Falk Hübner, Laura Maes, Stefan Prins, Simon Steen-Andersen, Matthew Shlomowitz and Cathy van Eyck during the tour 2011 at De Singel (Antwerp), Concertgebouw (Brugges), November Music (Den Bosch), Intro in Situ (Maastricht).
'Audience Observations' is an ongoing project. The concept is used to produce works and knowledge on the performative qualities of audiences in theaters, concert halls and elsewhere. It goes along with thoughts and works on the relation between public spaces and the space of the public: both places of performing forces.
'Audience Observations' contains the following works until now:
- Keine-Pause/No Break (performance)
- Seated (video installation)
- How was the audience tonight? - Questions for Performers right after the show (questionaire)
- Notations of Audiences (transcriptions of audience behaviors; still to be published)
- Choreography for a Sitting Audience (2018)
selection of recent performances:
- Brussels, Walter (SMOG series) with The Third Guy (Ruben Martinez Orio & Primož Sukič), 2019
- Maastricht, Marres, together with Rudi Laermans for "The performing audience", 2017
- Kein-Bild/No Image: scores for performing spectators (posters)
- Greetings from an audience (intervention)
- Keine-Spiele mehr/No Games any longer (performance)
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| with Rudi Laermans at Marres, Maastricht, 2017 (photo: Rob.van.Hoorn) |
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| premiere at De Single, Antwerp, 2011 |
Introduction speech:
"Good evening, my name is David Helbich and I am your audience interventionist and tonights AUDIENCE OBSERVER.
Which means, that I will for the sake of my research on audience behaviors observe you through out the evening from this position and I will report some of my observations at one point later in the evening to share with you what I found out.
I do this for your own good. My mission is to accentuate the roll of an audience in a concert situation like this. I call this Keine-Pause, No Break or Geen Pause, because I think that nothing can really interrupt the experience of a concert as a whole.
So, I'll observe you during the pieces and between the pieces.
The program book contains an alternative set of PROGRAM NOTES. As you might have seen already, the notes are not about the particular compositions, but about the changes between the pieces and things which are also part of this concert, even though you can't hear them.
Following the convention, it is time for your first clapping for the entrance of the pianist."
PROGRAM NOTES : link to pdf of the program notes for the performance in the Single, Antwerp
The first Audience Observations was part of "KEINE-PAUSE / NO BREAK: audience observations and alternative program notes", a performance concept, commisioned by, premiered and created for the extended piano recital '492kg' by Frederik Croene, who played - while I watched - pieces by Marianthi Papalexandri-Alexandri, Falk Hübner, Laura Maes, Stefan Prins, Simon Steen-Andersen, Matthew Shlomowitz and Cathy van Eyck during the tour 2011 at De Singel (Antwerp), Concertgebouw (Brugges), November Music (Den Bosch), Intro in Situ (Maastricht).
