GREAT GRAND MOTHER 1, 2
2014
- Ann Mirjam Vaikla
- Freya Sif Hestnes (DK)
- Mareike Nele Dobewall (DE)
Music: Gustav Mahler
Libretto: Kindertotenlieder
Duration: 30min
Accidental Festival, The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, London
Festival Opera Showroom, Folkoperan, Stockholm
The installation explores ways to open up and diffuse private and public space, architecture, scenography, landscape and costume, within the field of opera.
In Tempel Foaje of Folkoperan the audience will experience different meetings with an opera singer and her voice through two contrasting spaces within a high sculpture. The singers head throwns above it and reaches with her voice in all directions from this static position. The audience will move around and find an opening leading to a space under the singer.