Marko Ciciliani / NeoQuartet
BAROGUE
Installation, concert, and performance
Photo: Marko Ciciliani
BAROGUE is about the pursuit of purity and dominance that shaped the Baroque era and spawned patterns of thought that continue to shape our perception to this day. The Baroque was obsessed with order and ornament. It produced intellectual breakthroughs and artistic milestones, as well as profound exclusion and marginalization. New standardizations and categories not only structured knowledge and cognition, but they also segregated and erased, and they determined the limits of human imagination.
BAROGUE: the impetuous Baroque. Disorder, resistance, and the lust for power were essential aspects of the narcotic and affected beauty of this epoch. Marko Ciciliani’s BAROGUE is a three-part transmedia project that uses different perspectives to investigate how the pursuit of order in the 18th century shaped artistic practices, how the logic of scientific classification permeated music, and how these ideas continue to influence our thinking today.
A cooperation between the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz and ORF musikprotokoll
With the kind support of the Province of Styria, the Federal Ministry of Housing, Arts, Culture, Media and Sport, SKE Fonds, VGR – Verwertungsgesellschaft Rundfunk, and Austrian Culture Forum Warsaw