«Music and Scene in Transformation» Masters Festival

«Two-Way Mirror – with the shifting coating» is a performance about interruption, manipulation, and the shifting nature of power.

Musical structures, bodily actions, and staged situations unfold according to their own internal logic — only to be interrupted by voices, rules, expectations, and unexpected events. Authority appears and disappears, sometimes external, sometimes internalized.

Between concert, performance art, and absurd game, the piece explores how individuals adjust, resist, or begin to regulate themselves under pressure. Bureaucratic procedures, invisible systems of evaluation, and subtle forms of control gradually reshape behaviour.

In some moments the audience is invited to participate. Actions that would normally disturb a performance suddenly become possible — raising the question of when interruption becomes collaboration.

The performance therefore asks not only who holds power, but how easily power can move — from institutions to individuals, and from individuals back into the systems they once questioned.

Students on the Master’s programme «Music and Scene in Transformation» at the Basel Academy of Music are presenting their final projects as part of a mini-festival. The concerts will take place over several days in various formats and with different ensembles.
In this performance, Xueqing Juli Wang presents her final project.

With

Juli (Xueqing) Wang (flute/traverso/performance/concept/artistic director), Pierre Langrand (percussion/project/assistant), Diego Chacon (electric guitar/lute), Luca Manzo (piano), Miguel Francisco Manriquez (percussion), Shashi Shashank (electronics), Dirk Letsch (photos); Moritz Kirch (sound recording), Raoul Elattar (costumes), Isabelle Jossi (costumes), Camila Martin Barla (costumes), Ying Xiao (co-choreography/co-dramaturgy)

Musical and scenic development in collaboration with all participants

Program

Juli (Xueqing) Wang: «Two-Way Mirror – with the Shifting Coating»

Featuring excerpts from the following works:
Giovanni Girolamo Kapsberger (1580–1651): «Toccata 6ta», «Gagliarda 5ta» – 10'

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714–1788): «Flute Concerto in D minor, Wq. 22, H. 425» – 2'

François-André Danican Philidor (1726–1795): «Suite No. 5 in E minor» – 10'

Joseph Haydn (1732–1809): «Piano Sonata in E-flat major, Hob. XVI/52» – 3'

Casey Cangelosi: «Bad Touch» (2013) – 5'

Info

Please note: Short scene containing nudity and rapidly changing lighting.

With the kind support of Mia Di, Susanna Ruppel, Hannah Weinberger, Marianne Meyer and Gabriele Mahler.

Duration

60 minutes, no break

Links

Juli Xueqing Wang