Childhood memories is the stimulus for the experimental music theatre piece that we, as a group have been asked to produce. Being a group of four girls, we didn 't want to go down the obvious feminist route and it was an idea that each member of the group agreed on. By using this, we are hoping to achieve an aesthetically pleasing performance that portrays the innocence of children. To do this we intend on using both sonic and visual elements through the adult body e.g using childish movements accompanied with adult voices. For myself, I remember a few not so nice memories from my past and because of this I found researching into Gottfried Helnwein very relevant.
Helnwein is a 67 year old Austrian-Irish visual artist and was born on the 8th October 1948 in Vienna, Austria. He has many significant works but particular works that stood out to myself in terms of the artistic aims are as
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His theme is children:
“I want to see the world through the eyes of children” - ()
I discovered a three part documentary on 'Ninth November Night ', one of Helnwein 's earliest works which is based solely on when the violence against the Jewish community broke out across Reich. It was referred to as 'Reichkristallnicht ' which translates from German to 'The Crystal Night ' and often called 'Night of Broken Glass ', this event happened in 1938, ten years before Helnwein was born.
Although he was born a while after this unfortunate event, it still played a crucial part in is childhood. He also mentions the break between his and his parents ' generations, and the effects it had on the two causing a lot of dark times for the people of Vienna, it also led to the student revolution in the 1960 's.
In part one of the documentary, he explains that as a child he felt like he was born in a liminal state because everybody seemed to be depressed, “I never heard anybody sing