Bär + Mineral Animation

* 1—4 fromt the script and action panels | 5 photos of performance © Simon Fuchs *

scenario and its material

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Clothing: ski pants, fur cap, fur wristlets tied to yellow cords, big gloves, mountain shoes, woolen scarf, ski googles, teddy bear. I can stick my hands into the teddy bear's arms, where I keep them throughout the performance. I am holding items and shaking hands with the audience with the teddy bear's paw.
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We are awaiting the audience on the snow covered 'disap­peared' former tennis court; Milenko is leading the audience to this place. I swing a long branch with a flag made of text-panels, Leo's tuba is 'sitting' in the snow and shining golden. When the audience arrives I am starting with the subtext in German:
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Bär + Mineral, this you'll find not everywhere
The bear was once upon a time native here, not only as a heraldic animal ….
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Infor­mation about movement types and action rates of the immigrated bears, which I am reading from the flag-panel:
JJ2 or Lumpaz came in July 2005 into Switz­erland over the Ofenpass. He was said to be missing, he was probably poached.
JJ3 immigrated in summer 2007 into Switz­erland and stayed over winter in the Albulatal, and afterwards too often had approached settlements …
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Leo tells about the instructions, how to behave in case they would come across a bear, with which in 2009 all the stipen­diaries were informed
With him we are singing the song of the bear...
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Dorothea provides Infor­ma­tionen about the ’biology’ of the bear:
The bear is classified as coniform, or doglike carnivoran. He is related with seal, marten, wolf and skunk
He is a loner, crepuscular and nocturnal …
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We set out to find the disap­peared tennis court, which was once here, in the golden spa tourisme times:
With three fields
Belonging to the (former) Kurhaus (spa building) Tarasp
At the time experiences phenomenal times
With a lot of matches …
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I hand out spoons to the audience members and ask them to shovel the snow to the side and dig for traces of the floor of the tennis court.
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Afterwards we go together from the former tennis court over the bridge of the Inn to the Kurshaus. I ask the audience member to make noise (because of the bear) with the spoons, and to keep singing, further back in direction to the Zentrum für Gegen­wartskunst and I keep narrating:
The bear hunt back then was not only normal but virutally desired
Bonus scheme should have been paid by the Canton ...
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Futher on from the former Kurshaus (spa hotel) through the garden to the wellspring next to the house of the Zentrum für Gegen­wartskunst:
Here at this point/​spot was once upon a time in 1989 a wellspring, each morning we, the stipen­diates, filled a mug with heavily mineralised water
Directly from the tap without a spoon
It could have been Funtana Ursus
The disap­peared one ...
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