Liebeslied/My Suicides - Biographies

Paul Clark, Composer (English)

Paul Clark (born 1968 in the UK) is a composer whose work has most often been a response to a visual stimulus. In 1995 he founded the Clod Ensemble whose productions have featured at venues including The Purcell Room, Oxford Playhouse, Battersea Arts Centre, Teatro Hadivadlo in the Czech Republic and the La Mama troupe in New York.

In 1999 he was awarded an Arts Foundation Fellowship in recognition of his contribution to music theatre and won the 1996 Christopher Whelen Award for Music Theatre. He writes concert works, most notably his three Guitar Trios that have been performed across the UK by the London Guitar Trio, and The Pedal is Depressed, a solo written for pianist John Paul Gandy.

He has also written music for film and theatre (including the Young Vic, the Bolton Octagon, and Red Shift). He is currently finishing an extended work for the Clod called Kiss My Echo.

Alexander Garci­a Düttman, Librettist (German)

Alexander Garci­a Düttmann (born 1961 in Barcelona) is a philosopher who writes on aesthetics, ethics, and political philosophy. He has worked with Giorgio Agamben, Jacques Derrida and Jean-Luc Nancy, and has translated their writings into German.

His background is in 19th and 20th century German and French philosophy, with an emphasis on Frankfurt School (Adorno, Benjamin) and Deconstruction.

His publications include:

• Lifeline and Self-Portrait, London and New York, Serpent's Tail ( published in 2002)
• The Memory of Thought. An essay on Heidegger and Adorno, London, Athlone / Continuum, 2001
• Between Cultures. Tensions in the Struggle for Recognition, London, New York, Verso, 2000
• At Odds with Aids, Stanford, Stanford University Press, 1996

In May 2000 Alexander gave a paper on the future of Opera ("Old Opera") at a conference organized by the Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut in Essen, Germany. This paper was published in issue 7 of the review 'Metronome' and is included in the collection of essays Lifeline and Self-Portrait.

He is Professor for Modern European Philosophy at Middlesex University, London.

Rut Blees Luxemburg, Artist (German)

Rut Blees Luxemburg (born 1967 in Germany) is an artist who makes large-scale photographic works, which illuminate the poetics of space. Her work is exhibited internationally.

Recent exhibitions include:

• Questions of Landscape, Victoria & Albert Museum, London 2001
• Liebeslied II, Laurent Delaye Gallery, London 2000
• Landscape, British Council Touring Show, Germany, Spain, Italy, Brazil 2000/2001

Her work has been published by Black Dog Publishing:

• London - A Modern Project, with an essay by Michael Bracewell, 1997
• Liebeslied / My Suicides in collaboration with Alexander Garci­a Düttmann, 2000

Rut Blees Luxemburg Gallery