Digital Symposium: The Work of William Kentridge: Between Magic and political Discourse, Deichtorhallen Hamburg

We are very pleased to announce that the symposium on the occasion of the work of William Kentridge is now online on our website as well as on our YouTube channel.

Please find below three links to our YouTube channel and our website (in German and English language). Again, we are very thankful that you took part in the symposium, it was a great pleasure to work with you all.

Deichtorhallen Hamburg YouTube channel ▶︎ https://youtu.be/E7u8tgOwO2o

Deichtorhallen Hamburg German Website ▶︎ https://www.deichtorhallen.de/veranstaltung/william-kentridge-symposium

Deichtorhallen Hamburg English Website ▶︎ https://www.deichtorhallen.de/en/veranstaltung/william-kentridge-symposium

Chambre Noire/Black Box

“the most interesting textures and timbres of music results from the composer’s inventiveness his music is deftly woven into the piece”

- Maria-Christina. Villasenor, Solomon R Guggenheim Museum, New York

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“Miller creates a richly eclectic postmodern soundtrack which lends immense power to the dramatic emotive shifts that makes Black Box such a potent sensory experience.” 

- Alex Dodd, Business Day

Listen to the album here

Deborah Bell – Return of The Gods

Dada Masilo’s Giselle

South African composer, Philip Miller collaborates with the world renowned South African choreographer, Dada Masilo to create a new score working with electronic sampling, African choral music,poly-rhythmic layers of drumming and hidden traces of the original Adolphe Adam’s original music.

William Kentridge’s Refuse the Hour

Refuse the Hour’ chamber opera explores the nature of time (2012)

William Kentridge’s Refusal of Time

The Refusal of Time 2012. William Kentridge's five-channel video and sound installation The Refusal of Time (2012) is a thirty-minute meditation on time and space, the complex legacies of colonialism and industry, and the artist's own intellectual life.

Listen to the album here.

Kaboom

A multimedia installation. KABOOM! tells the story of the nearly two million African porters and carriers used by the British, French, and Germans during World War I in Africa. Set to a rousing, orchestral score co-composed by Philip Miller and Thuthuka Sibisi’s, the monumental, three-channel work is projected onto a scale model of the stage.

The Head and The Load

William Kentridge’s and composers, Philip Miller and Thuthuka Sibisis exploration of Africa’s role in the First World War combines music, dance, film projections, mechanized sculptures and shadow play to illuminate the untold story of the millions of African porters and carriers who served—and in many cases died for— British, French and German battlefield forces.