Nothing?

21.07.2011

How do we imagine Nothing?

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Is this really nothing? It’s an empty space.
 
But is an empty space the same as nothing? It IS nevertheless an empty space. So, if it IS, it surely could not be nothing. Or could it?

Questions, which have troubled philosophers as well as artists for centuries, are packed in the Festival Maribor's Nothing project that despite its name offers A LOT. 

It offers the music by Beethoven, Cage, Pärt, Händel, Walton, Feldman, Scelsi and Tognetti, the art of Jon Frank, the words of Barry Humphries, the enthusiasm of the Festival Maribor Orchestra and the drive of Marko Letonja. It offers the Croatian Radio Television Choir and soprano Aleksandra Zamojska. It offers drums, organs, and bells. 

Tognetti is fascinated with presenting the idea of nothing through sounds, voices, photographs, lighting and more. For, as he puts it: Nothing is the most fearful thing we know.

The multimedia project Nothing can be admired on Thursday, 6th September 2011 at 7:30p.m., in the Grand Hall of the Slovenian National Theatre, Maribor.

Ticket pre-sale can be found on the Internet and at the Eventim Outlets. 

Kind regards from you Festival Maribor Team