{"id":972,"date":"2025-11-26T23:49:21","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T23:49:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ioannisangelakis.com\/?page_id=972"},"modified":"2026-02-16T20:34:22","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T20:34:22","slug":"institutionimaginaire-2017","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ioannisangelakis.com\/index.php\/institutionimaginaire-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"InstitutionImaginaire-2017"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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for string quartet<\/span>
<\/span>Written for Momenta Quartet<\/span>
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Premiere: Momenta Quartet, Dimenna Center in New York, March 29, 2017<\/span>
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Institution Imaginaire for string quartet draws its materials from Mozart\u2019s Piano Concerto No.12 in A major. It is not a work of quotation, collage, or a historical commentary on Mozart\u2019s music but, rather, a deconstruction of its materials and structures in such a way that its remnants can be re-contextualized within a contemporary and, therefore, relevant to us framework. The point of departure for this project was the question \u201cWhat does Mozart mean to us today?\u201d<\/span><\/p>

Mozart\u2019s work, therefore, is not merely an abstract conception or a historical document separated from the works written today. Instead, there is a relation of cultural dependency, which, in both social and artistic terms, puts the two worlds in a constant and direct dialogue. However, it is not the old work but, rather, the new one that is historical on the grounds that its conditions of intelligibility depend on the structured genealogies of the work of the past.<\/span><\/p>

The question which was initially posed, \u201cWhat does Mozart mean to us today?\u201d seems, after all, inadequate. The new work appears to address another, reformulated question: \u201cWhat is history?\u201d or \u201cWhat does history mean for us today?\u201d This work, after all, is not a work about Mozart; it is a work about history; the way we create the meaning and the validity of Mozart today; the way we write our history. Mozart is an institution, and it appears that we did not invent it; instead, it was given to us by the previous generations as any other institution. However, it is we who, each time, endorse and confirm these cultural inheritances and recreate them according to our own needs, beliefs, and aesthetics.<\/span><\/p>

Institution Imaginaire is not a confirmative action of accepting uncritically Mozart\u2019s validity today nor a nostalgic reflection of the past. Its ultimate goal is to project a faith to the future; to our duty to re-write our history; the history of our future. \u201cNo more Mozart\u201d does not mean abstractly negating him and setting his music out of play; it means \u201clet\u2019s create our own institutions\u201d; \u201clet\u2019s create our own future\u201d; \u201clet\u2019s create our own history.\u201d The emergence of a new history is, in fact, the rewriting of history by means of a motivated repression that connects all the different sounds and reveals the beauty of what in the traditional structured genealogy remained unnameable.<\/span><\/p>

In the last part of the work the performers speak or sing deconstructed words and phonemes from the following poem:<\/span><\/p>

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Divine Anarchy<\/b>
<\/b>She bites her lips while the shooting stars continue to fall<\/span>
<\/span>Hugs her children<\/span>
<\/span>Speaks to them about the Divine Anarchy<\/span>
<\/span>Her armed hand<\/span>
<\/span>Her youthful flame<\/span>
<\/span>Her gait<\/span>
<\/span>Her courage when she shoots at the mirror and the half-spoken words<\/span>
<\/span>Her sacred rage at people who go silent before the light of the soul<\/span><\/p>


<\/span>Ch.P.Sofias<\/span>
<\/span>Translated by Ioannis Angelakis<\/span>



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