in the Garrison Church, Peterstraße 43, 26121 Oldenburg

Audiovisual performance as part of the Long Night of Music

2 screens with video projections, sound recordings, voice and organ

An audiovisual performance that explores the legendary, literary and cinematic connections between the invention of sustainable energy production, Dante’s “Inferno”, the first full-length Italian feature film and a sonic imagination of hell. The world’s first geothermal power plant is located in the Devil’s Valley in Tuscany, whose landscape, according to legend, inspired Dante to write “Inferno” in the 14th century. Giuseppe de Liguoro filmed the work in 1911. Despite the countless visual depictions of hell inspired by this Tuscan landscape, its rich sounds have remained silent. This is where 102 years asynchronous. The performer stands between two screens, one with documentary footage of the Teufelstal and the power station, the other with excerpts from the silent film, and gives hell a voice with speech, song and sound recordings.