Requiem Pro Lagopus Muta | Pia Grüter & Stefan Klein
Start of the performance: 1.00 pm
followed by an open discussion with the ornithologist Dr. Reinhard Lentner
Location: valley station Patscherkofelbahn, Römerstr. 81, 6080 Igls
In large areas of the planet, the undisturbed development of many animal species is now critically endangered due to climatic change as well as advancing tourism. Among others, the Alpine Ptarmigan ― whose habitat is also in the Tyrol ― is on the Red List of endangered species. The two artists Pia Grüter & Stefan Klein are responding to this and developing a requiem based on the call of the rock ptarmigan and his living environment together with local ptarmigan experts, a composer and a regional choir. The requiem will be performed for the first time in autumn 2022, close to the ptarmigan’s natural habitat. Subsequently, the piece will be performed regularly on a specific day each year. Instead of a physical monument in public space, the aim is to create a living monument that is not characterised by materiality, but exists as lived memory in repeat performances.
Costume/Set Up: Salha Fraidl
Choir: Vokalensemble Stimmen, Leitung Thomas Waldner
Special thanks to Reinhard Lentner, Maria Lentner, Ursula Oberwalder