Missing: Discourse
Artist Book
Moussa Kone, Erwin Uhrmann, Martin Haltrich (ed.): Missing: Discourse. Galerie 5020, Salzburg, 2007
15 x 21 cm, 92 pages, staple binding. Contains 20 drawings, musical notation, text, and two stickers. German language.
Published as an edition of 150 signed and numbered pieces on the occasion of the groupshow Is it a High C or a Vitamin B? Ironie und Humor als Spurenelemente in der zeitgenössischen Kunst curated by Felicitas Thun-Hohenstein.
Publisher: Galerie 5020, Salzburg.
Out of print.
A collaboration between Moussa Kone (concept, drawings), Erwin Uhrmann (concept, text), Martin and Dietmar Haltrich (composition) and Dominik Portune (guestauthor for the part of "Herta von Tannwipp"). The libretto contains on 90 pages drawings, musical notations and the text of the opera (arias, dialogues, stage directions).
The opera tells the story of a young artist, Hannes Sabians, moving through various art locations in the fictitious city of Muquay. Together with his mate, Alain Bisam, he is planning to stage a performance entitled Missing: Discourse for the NAP NITE, that should become a milestone in their young career. Finally, everything goes wrong, when the discourse itself hits the stage. Based on the art historic Mundus Inversus concept, the protagonists of the art scene are typified through different animal species.
