Volkmar Klien

There are no spectators.

an audience-activated performance.

A merry-go-round soap opera.

premiered June 8, 2024 on Governors' Island.

with support by the New York Arts Program

a work in progress

Simon Lee

Simon Lee works in photography, video, performance and installation. His work has been described as “a powerful metaphor for the random flow of history and a low tech formal tour de force” (New York Times). His fascination with watching dailyness, shooting cinéma vérité, collecting tens of thousands of found photographs and working with actors feed into his work. Lee’s projects include live multi-screen theatrical events, ad-hoc performances in public space, single and dual channel films and sculptural installations.

Eve Sussman

Playing with the tactics through which narrative is conveyed Eve Sussman works in expanded cinema, video installation and live performance. Experimenting with the power of implication she uses improvised scripting, channelled dialogue and choreography, and live and algorithmic editing as a means of generating stories in which meaning is slippery. Collaborations with Simon Lee and Volkmar Klien have used cell phones as devices for performance, faciliting narrative interventions via the public’s phones.

Volkmar Klien

Growing up in Vienna (Austria), Volkmar Klien spent his childhood engulfed in the city’s rich musical life with all its glorious traditions and engrained rituals. Working from this background he today strives to extend traditional practices of composing, producing and listening far beyond the established settings of concert music. In his practice he navigates the manifold links in-between the different modes of human perception, the spheres of presentation and the roles these play in the communal generation of meaning.