henning lundkvist - works - wagnerischer lichtung

wagnerischer lichtung
(2008)

audiovisual presentation, approx 30 minutes

"wherever one goes these days one is pestered with the question: what do you think of wagner?" (karl marx)

"I was told that the opera house had been set alight on strategical grounds, in order to face a dangerous attack on this exposed side, and also to protect the famous 'semper' barricade from an overpowering surprise. from this I concluded that reasons of this kind act as far more powerful motives in the world than aesthetic considerations." (richard wagner)

"may our night endure for ever!" (isolde)

wagnerischer lichtung has been presented at noise club (jönköping sweden), at studio6 at temple bar gallery and studios, dublin (ireland) and will be presented at the bridge festival (ruse, bulgaria) later in july.