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Karl Dunér, PING and SKULLS, 2024 Photo: Sören Vilks

PING and SKULLS

Crossborder Artwork

28.11 – 29.11 2024

Malmö

As part of the extensive program in connection with the exhibition “On the Absurd Drama That Is Also Life”, Karl Dunér’s play PING and SKULLS is presented.

Date: 28 and 29 November

Time: at 18.00 – 19.15

Location: Loading Dock

Language: Swedish

Ticket: 50 SEK, 40 SEK for students and pensioners (admission ticket included). Free admission if you hold an Annual pass or for those entitled to free admission. Buy your ticket through link above.

Meet our exhibitions in the evening! The museum and Kafé Sisko with bar is open until 20.00 both Thursday and Friday.

In Karl Dunér’s cross-border works of art “PING and SKULLS”, puppet theater is combined with sound sculpture and live music. The performance in four tableaus is based on texts by Samuel Beckett.

Dunér is constantly expanding the concept of theatre. He creates figures, objects and scenographies and lets them become part of the overall scenic experience.

Excerpt from review in national Swedish newspaper Svenska Dagbladet:

“Karl Dunér stages a philosophical gesamtkunstwerk, blending puppet theater, sculpture, and live music, expanding the concept of theater. Not all art clamors for attention. Some seeks the subtle, the whispered connections, creating space for what is almost unspeakable, what can only be sensed.”

“A beautiful moment of synchronicity, an exercise in creating wholeness from fragments.”

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Karl Dunér, PING and SKULLS, 2024 Photo: Sören Vilks
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Karl Dunér, PING and SKULLS, 2024 Photo: Sören Vilks

About PING and SKULLS

PING and SKULLS is a performance in four tableaus that uses different forms of puppetry technique.

The first Tableau (18min)
is an interplay between the sound work SKALLARNA, which is based on Samuel Beckett’s short play
“That Time” and the two musicians. Voice, Sven Lindberg.
The Second Tableau (20min)
is a silent interplay between a large wire puppet, the actor and the two musicians. The scene includes the sculpture “Kordofon 9”.
The Third Tableau (20min)
is a miniatures game for small room and puppet figure, along with actors, puppeteers and musicians. The text is Samuel Beckett’s short prose text “Ping”.
The Fourth Tableau (17min)
consists of a silent game for three different two-dimensional objects, actors, puppeteers and musicians. In a large independent stand, the three objects are hoisted, raised and lowered using an ingenious construction of ropes, blocks and mechanics. After a laborious act, the tableau ends with an optical illusion where the two-dimensional objects seem to merge into a three-dimensional whole.

Director and set design: Karl Dunér
Puppeteer: Thomas Lundquist
Violin: Anna Lindal
Flutes: Kerstin Frödin
Claviachord: Mats Persson

Recorded voice: Sven Lindberg
Texts by Samuel Beckett, with permission from Edward Beckett

With support from Swedish Arts Grants Committee and Public Art Agency Sweden