Scenatet - Juliana Hodkinson: Angel View

Angel View is an assemblage of urban and musical debris, somewhere between a wordless live radio play, enacted film soundtrack and instrumental theatre, composed by Juliana Hodkinson. Chiseling cement, falling debris, scraping cutlery, breaking glass, crisscrossing cables, squealing tram-wheels, an upturned bicycle, a travel souvenir, a shop window, a revolving carousel, a brace of monkeys, a wall under siege, a dining table laid for an ancestral dinner � it is a sonic bazaar. Made up of many parts, each designed to overlap, the work�s architecture is full of non-sequiturs and arbitrary cross-relations between imagined streets intersecting and running parallel, reflecting the surrealism of everyday life described in Walter Benjamin�s �Einbahnstrasse� and still present in the contemporary dilemmas and opportunities of Berlin today. All this is heard as if from an aerial perspective � perhaps the Victory Column where angels sit in Wings of Desire � from where Berlin below is observed as a series of tragedies, as witnessed by Benjamin�s angel of history.