INSULÆ
21.09.2025 Warschau,
Warschauer Herbst (UA)
05.11.2025 // 19:30
Wien,
Wien Modern, MuTh
31.Mar.2026 // 19:30
Innsbruck,
Osterfestival Tirol, Congress
21.09.2025 Warschau,
Warschauer Herbst (UA)
05.11.2025 // 19:30
Wien,
Wien Modern, MuTh
31.Mar.2026 // 19:30
Innsbruck,
Osterfestival Tirol, Congress
Pierre Jodlowski, concept – composition
– video – lights
Frank Witzel, text
Louise Sari, stage design
Polish translation: Zbigniew Naliwajek
PHACE
Doris Nicoletti, flute
Michael Krenn, saxophone
Ivana Pristašová Zaugg, violin
Roland Schueler, cello
Manuel Alcaraz Clemente, percussion
Stefan Obmann, trombone
Alfred Reiter, sound design
Voice Performers
Véronique Caye, Frank Smith, Maria Cristina
Mastrangeli, Xavier Maurel, Ulysses Mengue,
Vanessa Bettane, Philippe Langlois
Camera crew
Pierre Jodlowski
Markus Bruckner
Michael Eder
Video extras
Barbara Eder, Michael Eder, Reinhard Fuchs,
Petra Fuchs-Jebinger, Simone Göbel,
Nikolas Heep, Mia Kim, Maximilian Ölz,
Wolfgang Winter, Elfriede Wuschko
Production
Reinhard Fuchs, artistic director PHACE
Markus Bruckner, production PHACE
Emilie Roupnel, production éOle
Pierre Jodlowski
INSULÆ for six musicians, video, lights and electronics, 2024/25
commissioned by PHACE and éOle studio de création musicale & with the support of the
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a production by PHACE & éOle in co-production with Warsaw Autumn, Wien Modern, Osterfestival Tirol and GRAME – Centre National de Création Musicale
In 1940, Adolfo Bioy Casares published The Invention of Morel, a visionary novella released at a time when Hollywood cinema was flourishing. Around the world, movie theaters were multiplying, and with them emerged a new form of human connection: the ability to share emotions, stories, and attachments with fictional beings—with images, simply projected onto a screen.
Since then, humanity has entered an era where our relationship to images has become central—eventually blurring the line between reality and its representation. This confusion, now intensified by digital networks and our growing desire for virtual existence, raises a question already posed by Casares: Can one fall in love with an image?
Autor Frank Witzel greift diese Frage auf und komponiert ein literarisches Palimpsest, das Fragmente von Casares mit Echos von Shakespeare, Kierkegaard, Deleuze, Augé, Baudrillard usw. vermischt. Er führt uns auf eine Insel außerhalb der Zeit, gefangen in einer Endlosschleife, wo drei Figuren – ein Mann und zwei Frauen – versuchen, einer instabilen Welt durch die Auseinandersetzung mit ihren Gedanken und Gefühlen einen Sinn zu verleihen. Wie in Tarkowskis « Solaris » ist der Ozean hier kein natürliches Element, sondern ein denkender Organismus, eine mentale Projektion, die ein Eigenleben entwickelt hat.

Auch die Musiker sind Teil dieser seltsamen Welt – durch ihren Klang, ihre physische Präsenz und ihr Bild. Nach und nach erscheinen weitere Figuren auf der Leinwand. Sind es Projektionen? Werden reale Menschen in Simulakren verwandelt? Nichts ist sicher. Was hier verfolgt wird, ist eine starke Mehrdeutigkeit, die zu einer unmöglichen Gewissheit über die Definition dieser Präsenzen führt.
Diese Aufführung lädt uns ein, die durchlässigen Grenzen der Realität und die Monstrosität von Bildern zu hinterfragen – jene, die wir endlos neu erschaffen, bis wir nicht mehr wissen, was real ist.
Pierre Jodlowski is a composer, performer and multimedia artist. His music, often marked by a high density, is at the crossroads of acoustic and electric sound and is characterized by dramatic and political anchor. His work as a composer led him to perform in France and abroad in most places dedicated to contemporary music as well as others artistic fields: dance, theater, visual arts, electronic music. His work unfolds today in many areas : films, interactive installations, staging. He is defining his music as an “active process” on the physical level [musical gestures, energy and space] and on the psychological level [relation to memory and visual dimension of sound]. In parallel to his compositions, he also performs on various scenes (experimental, jazz, electronic), solo or with other artists.
Since 1998 he is co-artistic director of éOle (research and production studio based in Toulouse) and since 2019, he has become Artistic Director of Musica Electronica Nova Festival, produced by the National Forum of Music in Wroclaw, Poland. He is currently the associated composer for the Composition Cursus at IRCAM.


INSULÆ Invites us to question the porous boundaries of reality, and the monstrosity of images—those we endlessly recreate, until we no longer know what is real.
Read moreINSULÆ Invites us to question the porous boundaries of reality, and the monstrosity of images—those we endlessly recreate, until we no longer know what is real.
Read moreINSULÆ Invites us to question the porous boundaries of reality, and the monstrosity of images—those we endlessly recreate, until we no longer know what is real.
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