For the season 2004 / 2005 in the Vienna State Opera Tacita Dean designed the large scale picture ( 176 sqm ) " Play as Cast " as part of the exhibition series " Safety Curtain ", conceived by museum in progress.
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For the season 2006 / 2007 in the Vienna State Opera Rirkrit Tiravanija designed the large scale picture ( 176 sqm ) " Fear Eats the Soul " as part of the exhibition series " Safety Curtain ", conceived by museum in progress.
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Occupational safety and health regulations state that the safety curtain must be able to resist fire and thereby prevent ( or at least hinder ) fires starting on stage from spreading to the auditorium and the rest of the theatre, reducing injuries to audience members and members of staff.
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Three of the requirements ( leaving the theatre, freedom of the gangways and the operation of the safety curtain ) were set to music by Donald Swann for the revue Fresh Airs and were later used as encores for the Flanders and Swann revue " At the Drop of a Hat ".
