Performance / Installation / Film | Musical Works by Visual Artists
Käthe Kruse
In 1997, Berlin-based artist Käthe Kruse released the CD Le Sexe Rouge, featuring 13 songs she composed and sang herself. The title track refers to an installation shown at the ZWINGER Gallery in Berlin in 1996, and in the following years Kruse developed a complex visual environment for each of the 13 songs. She ultimately not only designed an object or series of images for each song, but also developed accompanying performative situations, each consisting of a film, a colour projection, and singing and acting in that situation.
After previously presenting only parts of this complete artwork, Käthe Kruse will now, for the first time, perform the entire cycle of 13 songs. The audience follows the artist on her journey through the concert installation, accompanying her from one situation to the next, from one song to another. In this way, the complex work ‘Le Sexe Rouge’ becomes a multi-dimensional composition of image, text, music, and projection.
Käthe Kruse
Le Sexe Rouge (1997/2002)
Käthe Kruse – performance, installation, film
A co-production of Freunde Guter Musik Berlin e.V., Nationalgalerie and MaerzMusik / Berliner Festspiele. With the support of the Verein der Freunde der Nationalgalerie