Skoltech students have joined the creative endeavors of the CoOPERAtion Lab, which is starting a new project in ART&SCIENCE, a field of contemporary art at the intersection of artistic, scientific, creative, and technological processes.
As the Lab press service reports, young composers, playwrights, directors, stage designers and scientists will work together to explore interdisciplinary approaches to opera composition. Finding the bridges between art and science is particularly important today, when creativity is increasingly linked to digitalization and experimental technologies. Laboratory participants will have to investigate these processes when creating their pieces. Their work will be linked to frontier areas of knowledge: information and energy efficient technologies, biotechnology and neuroscience.
The CoOPERAtion Lab will result in 8 chamber operas of 20 to 30 minutes in duration that will be presented on the Small Stage of the K.S. Stanislavsky and V.I. Nemirovich-Danchenko Musical Theatre in November 2021. The project is carried out in partnership with the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology and the British Higher School of Design and supported by the Russian Composers’ Union.
The first phase of the laboratory started on 14 November 2020 in two formats – offline and online. During this period the participants will attend lectures, work in groups, form the production teams and present their ideas for future operas.
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Among the international guests of the Laboratory are renowned authorities in the field of art&science projects: Ludger Brummer, Head of the Institute of Music and Acoustics at the Centre for Art and Media in Karlsruhe (ZKM); Crystal Baur, head of the Ars Electronica Festival, researcher with an interdisciplinary background in art history, cultural management, and natural science and Karla Spiluttini, producer of the European projects of the Ars Electronica festival, cultural producer, media artist and researcher.The lecturers who will share their knowledge and experience with participants during the educational program are leading professionals involved in the field of contemporary musical theatre, as well as new media. They are art&science project curators Dmitry Bulatov and Olga Remneva, media artists Anna Titovets (Intektra) and Dmitry Morozov (Vtol), composer Olga Bochikhina, singer and composer Natalia Pshenichnikova, playwright Evgeny Kazachkov, music researcher Vladislav Tarnopolsky, opera critic Aya Makarova and head of the literary section of the Bolshoi Theatre of Russia Tatiana Belova.
The first phase of the laboratory’s work will conclude on 5 December with an open presentation of the educational program’s results and a press conference. Eight creative teams that will have formed over the educational period will present ideas for future operas. The live stream will be available on the CoOPERAtion Lab Facebook page.
The final performances will be presented from 1 to 9 November 2021 with the help of the CoOPERAtion Lab’s partners – The Gallery of Actual Music Ensemble under the artistic leadership of Oleg Paiberdin, and the La Gol Voice Theatre of Natalia Pshenichnikova.
Contact information:
Skoltech Communications
+7 (495) 280 14 81
