{"id":1856,"date":"2022-09-24T19:34:51","date_gmt":"2022-09-24T19:34:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nadarensemble.be\/?post_type=works&#038;p=1856"},"modified":"2023-04-08T09:14:01","modified_gmt":"2023-04-08T07:14:01","slug":"alan-t","status":"publish","type":"works","link":"https:\/\/nadarensemble.be\/works\/alan-t\/","title":{"rendered":"Alan T."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On Christmas Eve 2013, the British Crown issued a formal posthumous pardon to the mathematician Alan Turing. After openly acknowledging a homosexual relationship, Turing was forced in 1952 to undergo chemical castration, homosexuality being a criminal offence in Britain at the time. Shut out from scientific circles and gradually excluded from society altogether, Turing died at the premature age of 42.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-jetpack-tiled-gallery aligncenter is-style-rectangular\"><div class=\"tiled-gallery__gallery\"><div class=\"tiled-gallery__row\"><div class=\"tiled-gallery__col\" style=\"flex-basis:40.87538%\"><figure class=\"tiled-gallery__item\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" data-height=\"1000\" data-id=\"3309\" data-link=\"https:\/\/nadarensemble.be\/works\/alan-t\/alan-t_warsaw_cgrzesizk-mart-3\/\" data-url=\"https:\/\/nadarensemble.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Alan-T_Warsaw_cGrzesizk-Mart-3-1024x683.jpg\" data-width=\"1500\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/nadarensemble.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Alan-T_Warsaw_cGrzesizk-Mart-3-1024x683.jpg?ssl=1\" data-amp-layout=\"responsive\"\/><\/figure><\/div><div class=\"tiled-gallery__col\" style=\"flex-basis:18.24924%\"><figure class=\"tiled-gallery__item\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" data-height=\"1080\" data-id=\"3310\" data-link=\"https:\/\/nadarensemble.be\/works\/alan-t\/alan-t_warsaw_cgrzesizk-mart-5\/\" data-url=\"https:\/\/nadarensemble.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Alan-T_Warsaw_cGrzesizk-Mart-5-683x1024.jpg\" data-width=\"720\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nadarensemble.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Alan-T_Warsaw_cGrzesizk-Mart-5-683x1024.jpg?ssl=1\" data-amp-layout=\"responsive\"\/><\/figure><\/div><div class=\"tiled-gallery__col\" style=\"flex-basis:40.87538%\"><figure class=\"tiled-gallery__item\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" data-height=\"1000\" data-id=\"3311\" data-link=\"https:\/\/nadarensemble.be\/works\/alan-t\/alan-t_warsaw_cgrzesizk-mart-6lr\/\" data-url=\"https:\/\/nadarensemble.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Alan-T_Warsaw_cGrzesizk-Mart-6LR-1024x683.jpg\" data-width=\"1500\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/nadarensemble.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Alan-T_Warsaw_cGrzesizk-Mart-6LR-1024x683.jpg?ssl=1\" data-amp-layout=\"responsive\"\/><\/figure><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><br>The trajectory of this exceptional figure\u2019s life, and his relationship with the wider community, demands the most intense reappraisal. The concentrated genius and sheer historical importance of his work seem to be in sharp contrast to his social status and role as a victim. Turing seems, in a tragic sense, to embody the history of the 20th century: one of its very greatest contributors to scientific progress and yet the victim of dark forces and profound intolerance \u2013 all because he was different.<br>The libretto, by German author Frank Witzel, depicts a character who is both historic and symbolic. It is a non-linear journey whose narrative shifts from the exterior to the interior \u2013 recalling memories and fragments of existence as it shifts towards larger metaphysical questions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"AlanT Trailer 2021\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DkU1ocGFz9M?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br>The text, divided into six parts, shows us Turing \u2013 portrayed by the German actor Thomas Hauser \u2013 speaking at the twilight of his life: alone, in his apartment which he himself called the \u2018Nightmare Room\u2019, he reminisces about his childhood, his investigations on the subject of machines and of artificial intelligence, which he himself invented, and recalls his trial and exclusion from society.<br>Several characters are interwoven around this central performance (portrayed by Polish singer Joanna Freszel): Turing\u2019s mother; Joan, his colleague at the codebreaking centre in Bletchley Park during the war; and the daughter of Dr Gr\u00fcnbaum, who treated Turing in the final years of his life.<br>The text revealed Turing to be a fragile, nonconformist character, fascinated by numbers, by alchemy and by the fundamental condition of things. Despite the oppression to which he was subjected, he remains a luminous character whose intelligence projects him beyond reality, like an alchemist of existential thought.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>CREDITS<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Conception, composition, video, lights, staging: Pierre Jodlowski<br>Original text: Frank Witzel<br>French translation: Olivier Mannoni \/\/ Polish translation: Zbigniew Naliwajek \/\/ English translation: Saul Lipetz \/\/ Dutch translation: Mathias De Prest<br>Dramaturge: Martina St\u00fctz<br>Scenography: Claire Saint-Blancat<br>Set construction: Claire Daulion<br>Live video: Yann Philippe, Matthieu Guillin<br>Soprano: Joanna Freszel<br>Actor: Thomas Hauser<br>Musicians: Nadar Ensemble<br>Computer music design Ircam: Thomas Goepfer<br>Sound engineer: Kamil Keska<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Commissionned by: Compagnie \u00e9Ole, Ircam-Centre Pompidou, Philharmonie de Paris Delegate Production: Compagnie \u00e9Ole<br>Coproduction: Ircam- Centre Pompidou, SWR Classic &#8211; Donaueschinger Musiktage, Warsaw Autumn Festival, Music Centre De Bijloke (Ghent)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Computer part of the work produced in Ircam-Centre Pompidou\u2019s studios<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":2977,"template":"","acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nadarensemble.be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/works\/1856"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nadarensemble.be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/works"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nadarensemble.be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/works"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nadarensemble.be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nadarensemble.be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}