Malice in Sonderland

a real time audiovisual performance piece
reflecting the contemporary relevance of
Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland

Korhan Erel, sound composer, Istanbul
in cooperation with
Alexandra Reill, media artist, Vienna

MAK NITE© 01/2010
When:
Tuesday, January 19th, 2010, 8 pm
Where:
MAK - Museum of Applied Arts Vienna
Säulenhalle / MAK Columned Main Hall

Malice in Sonderland deals with Lewis Carroll’s famous novel Alice in
Wonderland (1865). In their audiovisual performance, sound composer Korhan Erel from Istanbul and Viennese media artist Alexandra Reill start with original material from the 1933 Alice in Wonderland film directed by Norman Z. McLeod.
Using experimental digital methods, they examine the theme and the story of this profound fairytale and interpret it live at MAK NITE© with a phantasmagoric improvisation composed from digital images and abstract sound collages.

Erel and Reill question the societal relevance of Carroll’s bizarrely
adventuresome story. The artists’ research on the topic led them to formulate the title anew: Malice in Sonderland. Malice: this change in the wording refers to the desire to injure, to do damage, to act in a hostile manner. And Sonderland? What
characterizes capitalist societies today? What makes such worlds so special? Must—and can—a “hero” or a “heroine” such as Alice find her bearings and make her way in a society characterized by competition, in which one must fight in order to ultimately prevail? What choices does an individual have in unscrupulous societies that are oriented toward high performance?

Korhan Erel and Alexandra Reill pose these and numerous other questions on their journey through the twisted paths of Carroll’s Wonderland, and in doing so they create a “brave new world through the looking glass”.

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