Lakrimatorium 35 x Me and Some Actresses Lonely Hearts Club
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Here you can read more about extern projects that has been created in collaboration with Poste Restante.
Do you suffer a lack of tears? Don’t worry.
Do you have an excess? You are needed.
- Lakrimatorium. Grief donation and tear supplying service anno 2019.
Lakrimatorium was a participatory performance about different relationships to grief and crying. The performance took the form of a donation center that – driven by the conviction of the inherent value of grief – received, archived and passed on grief files between people. Gently guided by the staff and a paper shredder, the visitor was given the opportunity to either donate their words of grief or receive others' – tailored to their needs and preferences.
By: Erika Lindahl
Bollebygd (SE) (2019)
Lakrimatorium was performed at Boy konsthall in Bollebygd, 17th –24th of August 2019.
Performers: Oskar Nilsson, Amanda Nordmark, Erika Lindahl och Ida Jarlgren
Dramaturge: Amanda Nordmark
Set design: Oskar Nilsson and Erika Lindahl
Composer: Anton Leijonberg /Tommorrowsquare.
Stage hand: John Salquist
Curators Boy konsthall: Sara Östebro and Maja Östebro
Gothenburg (SE) (2019)<7b>
Lakrimatorium was performed at Studio Gathenhielm, Gathenhielmska Huset, Gothenburg, 16th–23ed of November 2019.
Performers: Amanda Nordmark, Erika Lindahl, Johan Paus och Ida Jarlgren.
Dramaturge: Amanda Nordmark
Set design: Oskar Nilsson and Erika Lindahl
Composer: Anton Leijonberg /Tommorrowsquare.
Stage hand: John Salquist
Coordinator Studio Gathenhielm: Isabel Lagos
Lakrimatorium made in co-production with Fictionality, Boy konsthall and Studio Gathenhielm a. Thanks to Per Antonsson, Maria Hedin-Jonsson, Hanna Källdin, Helena Pernow och Bollebygds bibliotek.
The production was made with support from Konstnärsnämnden and Göteborgs stads kulturförvaltning.
“35 x Me and Some Actresses” >/i> is an immersive, playful performance which offer the visitors an opportunity to explore the psychological and ethical dilemmas that social media face us with, when we all have the power to stage our own preferred "me".
The performance was been created by a Nordic working group in which Stefan Åkesson represented Poste Restante and it was produced by the Finnish-Swedish duo Blaue Frau.
In the performance, seven actresses share the secrets of their trade and hand down experiences from the theatre's 2500 year-old tradition to the visitors. As a visitor you are offered tools and strategies that might facilitate the staging of your own online-self and you are invited to explore the political potential of the internet.
From the working group's doctrines:
- Our internet has the potential of becoming a feminist utopia.
- Our internet is a place where all should be themselves.
- Our internet is a place where one can be transformed.
- Our internet is a place where personal lust take precedence over the desires of others.
- Our internet is here.
By: Sonja Ahlfors, Lidia Bäck , Bergdís Júlía Jóhannsdóttir, Sepideh Khodarahmi, Nina Matthis, Klara Wenner Tångring, Joanna Wingren and Stefan Åkesson.
Helsinki (2018), Gothenburg (2018), Odense (2019), Aarhus (2019), Copenhagen (2019), Akureyri (2019) och Reykjavik (2019)
Performers: Sonja Ahlfors, Lidia Bäck, Bergdís Júlía Jóhannsdóttir, Sepideh Khodarahmi, Nina Matthis, Klara Wenner Tångring, Joanna Wingren and Stefan Åkesson.
Lightdesign: Meri Ekola
Costume: Malin Nyqvist
Scenography consultant: Kristina Sedlerova
Technical coordinator: Jesper Karlsson
Video editing : Anna-Sofia Nylund
Music and audio: Stefan Johansson
Tailor: Sanna Pietila
Graphic design: Johan Isaksson
Producer: Elina Tervonen and Ilse Ybarra.
Production: Blaue Frau in collaboration with Stefan Åkesson from Poste Restante.
The project was financed with support by Konstsamfundet, Helsingfors kulturcentral, Konestiftelsen, Centret för konstfrämjande, Nordiska Ministerrådet, Svenska Kulturfonden, Fonden Sverige Finland, Nordisk kulturfond, The Swedish Arts Grants Committee, Stiftelsen Tre Smeder and Swedish Arts Council. Lonely Hearts Club was an immersive and participatory performance work about loneliness, where the fragile and unprotected met the invulnerable. In a pop-up boutique, the visitor explored the contradictions between the individualistic fear of vulnerability and the inevitable longing for closeness together with a discrete guide. In the darkness, the visitors were led through a choreography of wishes, a Via Dolorosa, together with the most precious belonging. An invitation to forget, or maybe to yearn?
By: Linn Hilda Lamberg, Jens Nielsen, Tomas Rajnai
Stockholm (SE) (2019)
Lonely Hearts Club was performed at Skrapan, Götgatan 78, Stockholm, 29th of November – 10th of December 2019.
Performers:
Anton Österlund
Emelie Wahlman
Emma Stocke
Jens Nielsen
Mikael Norinder
Sara Ribbenstedt
Tomas Rajnai
Producer: Sofia Jonsson
Music: Maria Stålhammar
Graphical Design: Jacob Huurinainen, Leon Martinsen
Intern: Therese Alston
Lonely Hearts Club was a co-production between POSTE RESTANTE and Osynliga teatern It was made with support from Stockholm stads Kulturförvaltning, Stockholms Läns Landsting and the Swedish Arts Council.
”…dizzying to finally meet oneself in a physical enactment of a very private memory from my life.”
- Cecilia Djurberg,
2019-12-03
Here you can read more about extern projects that has been created in collaboration with Poste Restante.
Do you suffer a lack of tears? Don’t worry.
Do you have an excess? You are needed.
- Lakrimatorium. Grief donation and tear supplying service anno 2019.
Lakrimatorium was a participatory performance about different relationships to grief and crying. The performance took the form of a donation center that – driven by the conviction of the inherent value of grief – received, archived and passed on grief files between people. Gently guided by the staff and a paper shredder, the visitor was given the opportunity to either donate their words of grief or receive others' – tailored to their needs and preferences.
By: Erika Lindahl
Bollebygd (SE) (2019)
Lakrimatorium was performed at Boy konsthall in Bollebygd, 17th –24th of August 2019.
Performers: Oskar Nilsson, Amanda Nordmark, Erika Lindahl och Ida Jarlgren
Dramaturge: Amanda Nordmark
Set design: Oskar Nilsson and Erika Lindahl
Composer: Anton Leijonberg /Tommorrowsquare.
Stage hand: John Salquist
Curators Boy konsthall: Sara Östebro and Maja Östebro
Gothenburg (SE) (2019)<7b>
Lakrimatorium was performed at Studio Gathenhielm, Gathenhielmska Huset, Gothenburg, 16th–23ed of November 2019.
Performers: Amanda Nordmark, Erika Lindahl, Johan Paus och Ida Jarlgren.
Dramaturge: Amanda Nordmark
Set design: Oskar Nilsson and Erika Lindahl
Composer: Anton Leijonberg /Tommorrowsquare.
Stage hand: John Salquist
Coordinator Studio Gathenhielm: Isabel Lagos
Lakrimatorium made in co-production with Fictionality, Boy konsthall and Studio Gathenhielm a. Thanks to Per Antonsson, Maria Hedin-Jonsson, Hanna Källdin, Helena Pernow och Bollebygds bibliotek.
The production was made with support from Konstnärsnämnden and Göteborgs stads kulturförvaltning.
“35 x Me and Some Actresses” >/i> is an immersive, playful performance which offer the visitors an opportunity to explore the psychological and ethical dilemmas that social media face us with, when we all have the power to stage our own preferred "me".
The performance was been created by a Nordic working group in which Stefan Åkesson represented Poste Restante and it was produced by the Finnish-Swedish duo Blaue Frau.
In the performance, seven actresses share the secrets of their trade and hand down experiences from the theatre's 2500 year-old tradition to the visitors. As a visitor you are offered tools and strategies that might facilitate the staging of your own online-self and you are invited to explore the political potential of the internet.
From the working group's doctrines:
- Our internet has the potential of becoming a feminist utopia.
- Our internet is a place where all should be themselves.
- Our internet is a place where one can be transformed.
- Our internet is a place where personal lust take precedence over the desires of others.
- Our internet is here.
By: Sonja Ahlfors, Lidia Bäck , Bergdís Júlía Jóhannsdóttir, Sepideh Khodarahmi, Nina Matthis, Klara Wenner Tångring, Joanna Wingren and Stefan Åkesson.
Helsinki (2018), Gothenburg (2018), Odense (2019), Aarhus (2019), Copenhagen (2019), Akureyri (2019) och Reykjavik (2019)
Performers: Sonja Ahlfors, Lidia Bäck, Bergdís Júlía Jóhannsdóttir, Sepideh Khodarahmi, Nina Matthis, Klara Wenner Tångring, Joanna Wingren and Stefan Åkesson.
Lightdesign: Meri Ekola
Costume: Malin Nyqvist
Scenography consultant: Kristina Sedlerova
Technical coordinator: Jesper Karlsson
Video editing : Anna-Sofia Nylund
Music and audio: Stefan Johansson
Tailor: Sanna Pietila
Graphic design: Johan Isaksson
Producer: Elina Tervonen and Ilse Ybarra.
Production: Blaue Frau in collaboration with Stefan Åkesson from Poste Restante.
The project was financed with support by Konstsamfundet, Helsingfors kulturcentral, Konestiftelsen, Centret för konstfrämjande, Nordiska Ministerrådet, Svenska Kulturfonden, Fonden Sverige Finland, Nordisk kulturfond, The Swedish Arts Grants Committee, Stiftelsen Tre Smeder and Swedish Arts Council. Lonely Hearts Club was an immersive and participatory performance work about loneliness, where the fragile and unprotected met the invulnerable. In a pop-up boutique, the visitor explored the contradictions between the individualistic fear of vulnerability and the inevitable longing for closeness together with a discrete guide. In the darkness, the visitors were led through a choreography of wishes, a Via Dolorosa, together with the most precious belonging. An invitation to forget, or maybe to yearn?
By: Linn Hilda Lamberg, Jens Nielsen, Tomas Rajnai
Stockholm (SE) (2019)
Lonely Hearts Club was performed at Skrapan, Götgatan 78, Stockholm, 29th of November – 10th of December 2019.
Performers:
Anton Österlund
Emelie Wahlman
Emma Stocke
Jens Nielsen
Mikael Norinder
Sara Ribbenstedt
Tomas Rajnai
Producer: Sofia Jonsson
Music: Maria Stålhammar
Graphical Design: Jacob Huurinainen, Leon Martinsen
Intern: Therese Alston
Lonely Hearts Club was a co-production between POSTE RESTANTE and Osynliga teatern It was made with support from Stockholm stads Kulturförvaltning, Stockholms Läns Landsting and the Swedish Arts Council.
”…dizzying to finally meet oneself in a physical enactment of a very private memory from my life.”
- Cecilia Djurberg,
2019-12-03