Heaven & Hell
“Heaven and hell are within us, and all the gods are within us”
- Joseph Campbell
Heaven & Hell was an immersive performance in the form of a secret society with specific membership criteria. In house of renown, with rooms and rooms of hand-painted tapestries, a new mythological language was formulated through their rituals. With impetus from dead poets and immortal poems, the members explored how they could understand themselves better, and by means of which words it is possible pronounce – and bring forth – another future.
Heaven & Hell was the second, independent part of POSTE RESTANTE's diptych about the form and function of tragedy and the performativity of mythological language. The performance started from anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss' theories on mythology as a language for experiences that cannot be expressed in any other way. In Heaven & Hell, we gathered and examined the mythological heritage we turn to in order to understand both our existence and how we narrate it to ourselves. The first part of the diptych, It’s a Tragedy, was performed in Stockholm 2018..
The performance was co-produced by Skogen and performed in collaboration with Studio Gathenhielm. It was produced specifically for Gathenhielmska huset, a building that is listed due to its cultural significance, located at Stigbergstorget in Gothenburg. Since 1743 it has, in addition to being a private residence, housed several Societies. In modern times it has mainly been closed to the public.
Concept: Linn Hilda Lamberg and Erika Lindahl
Heaven & Hell was performed at Gathenhielmska huset in Gothenburg, the 17th of April - 12th of May, 2019.
Direction: Linn Hilda Lamberg and Benjamin Quigley
Performers: Majula Drammeh, Linn Hilda Lamberg, Erika Lindahl, Benjamin Quigley and Maja Svensson
Dramaturge: Erika Lindahl
Intern: Maja Svensson
Audience host: Daniel Cevér
Photo: Patriez van der Wens
Production: Poste Restante in co-production with Skogen
Coordinator Studio Gathenhielm/Gathenhielmska huset: Isabel Lagos
Thanks to: Wänskapsförbundet and c/o Kollegium
With financial support by Gothenburg City Culture Council (Göteborgs stads kulturförvaltning) and the Swedish Arts Council (Kulturrådet).
Heaven & Hell was the second, independent part of Poste Restante’s diptych about performativity of language and the form and function of mythology. The first part of the diptych, It's a Tragedy, had its première in Stockholm fall 2018.
“Heaven and hell are within us, and all the gods are within us”
- Joseph Campbell
Heaven & Hell was an immersive performance in the form of a secret society with specific membership criteria. In house of renown, with rooms and rooms of hand-painted tapestries, a new mythological language was formulated through their rituals. With impetus from dead poets and immortal poems, the members explored how they could understand themselves better, and by means of which words it is possible pronounce – and bring forth – another future.
Heaven & Hell was the second, independent part of POSTE RESTANTE's diptych about the form and function of tragedy and the performativity of mythological language. The performance started from anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss' theories on mythology as a language for experiences that cannot be expressed in any other way. In Heaven & Hell, we gathered and examined the mythological heritage we turn to in order to understand both our existence and how we narrate it to ourselves. The first part of the diptych, It’s a Tragedy, was performed in Stockholm 2018..
The performance was co-produced by Skogen and performed in collaboration with Studio Gathenhielm. It was produced specifically for Gathenhielmska huset, a building that is listed due to its cultural significance, located at Stigbergstorget in Gothenburg. Since 1743 it has, in addition to being a private residence, housed several Societies. In modern times it has mainly been closed to the public.
Concept: Linn Hilda Lamberg and Erika Lindahl
Heaven & Hell was performed at Gathenhielmska huset in Gothenburg, the 17th of April - 12th of May, 2019.
Direction: Linn Hilda Lamberg and Benjamin Quigley
Performers: Majula Drammeh, Linn Hilda Lamberg, Erika Lindahl, Benjamin Quigley and Maja Svensson
Dramaturge: Erika Lindahl
Intern: Maja Svensson
Audience host: Daniel Cevér
Photo: Patriez van der Wens
Production: Poste Restante in co-production with Skogen
Coordinator Studio Gathenhielm/Gathenhielmska huset: Isabel Lagos
Thanks to: Wänskapsförbundet and c/o Kollegium
With financial support by Gothenburg City Culture Council (Göteborgs stads kulturförvaltning) and the Swedish Arts Council (Kulturrådet).
Heaven & Hell was the second, independent part of Poste Restante’s diptych about performativity of language and the form and function of mythology. The first part of the diptych, It's a Tragedy, had its première in Stockholm fall 2018.