The Rite of Spring
尼古拉斯 • 克洛茨 X 羅密歐 •卡士鐵路奇
Nicolas KLOTZ X Roméo CASTELLUCCI
The Rite of Spring
2013
Video
10’24”
Courtesy of Nicolas Klotz
In this “non-human“ version of “The Rite of Spring”, soil is dropped from above with the music. A metaphor is presented with this automatic machine installation, suggesting a contemporary human-less factory. Without any dancers, the work is an interpretation of the working conditions in a future city with self-driving machines, similar to the use of robots in factories today for sorting out goods and the use of drones for deliveries. This work suggests that the city itself will also be composed by machines, and thus opens up imaginations of the future based on “The Rite of Spring”.
Artist description
Nicholas KLOTZ
Nicolas Klotz is a French filmmaker born in Neuilly-sur-Sein. Klotz and Elisabeth Perceval interrogate both the cinematic form and the upheavals of the contemporary world. They currently prepare a retrospective with the Centre Georges Pompidou (December 2021 - January 2022), bringing together for the first time some fifty of their feature-length narrative and documentary films, clandestine dialogues, short and medium-length films, and video essays.
Roméo CASTELLUCCI
Romeo Castellucci was born in 1960 in Cesena, Italy. He graduated with a degree in painting and scenography from the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna. In 1981, jointly with Claudia Castellucci and Chiara Guidi, he founded Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio. In the role of a director and stage, lighting and costume designer, Romeo Castellucci is known throughout the world for creating a theatre founded on the totality of the arts and aimed at an integral perception. He has also written various theoretical essays on directing. His theatre engages in a type of dramaturgy that overturns the primacy of literature, thus becoming a complex and supple form of art, a theatre made of extraordinarily rich images expressed in a language as comprehensible as music, sculpture, painting or architecture.