1945: A Passion

A sound sculpture by George Tomlinson and Mischa Twitchin

With a soundscape that includes the voices of T.S. Eliot, Robert McNamara,
Albert Einstein, Martin Heidegger, Paul Celan and Joseph Beuys, '1945' remembers
the year of peace in Europe. But what if 1945 occurred only in 1989, after the fall
of the Berlin Wall? Are we then still awaiting 1989?
Following Foucault’s inversion of Clausewitz's famous proposition 'that war is the
continuation of politics by other means', perhaps the end of the war is no more in
the past than the peace that has yet to begin.

We are always writing the history of the same war, even when we are writing the
history of peace and its institutions... - Michel Foucault

To consider ideas as sculpture - to search for the forms created by thinking -
to consider sculpture's embodiment in sound and language, on the border between
the invisible world and the visible world... - Joseph Beuys

1945: A Passion has already been presented at the Shunt Lounge,
at the Miscellaneous Festival (Judith E Wilson
Drama Studio, Cambridge), and at the Manipulate Festival (Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh)