performative installation
Premiere august 2024
Kompanihuset Malmö
Links
~A+A Scenkonst website
The immersive performance- and installation piece Svälten aims to bring to life the folk testimonies of the famine in Sweden and Finland during the late 1867-69.
The piece is a co-production between A+A Scenkonst (Annie Eliasson/Amanda Lebert) and Teater Kreatur (Maja Ellborg, kalle Syri och Linda Blom) and is based on reworked and musicalized texts drawn from archives in Sweden and Finland.
It is a musical and visual narrative, not just about a natural disaster and a population in crisis, but also a testament to the view on of the body, class and nature in a time when cosmologies and ideas were in a state of flux.
Presented as a mixture of video installation and performance the installation will be composed of built environments, drawing from the rich tapestry of nordic folklore, landscape -and decorative painting, folkcrafts and natural material.
The project will result in a series of immersive performances in the historical building Kompanihuset in Malmö during fall 2024.
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PRODUCTION TEAM
A+A Scenkonst
Annie Eliasson, concept,scenography,costume design
Amanda Lebert, lightdesigner, technician
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Teater Kreatur
Maja Ellborg, Kalle Syri, Linda Blom, performers
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Maja Ellborg, Producer
Gabriella Marmén, dramaturgy
Johannes Ekdahl Du Rietz,composer
Clara Tybrandt,costume assistant
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This project is realised through archival material
and researchers at;
Åbo Academy
Archive Cultura
Swedish-Finnish Textile Archive
Finnish Literature Society (SKS) Helsinki
Swedish Literature Society in Finland (SLS) Helsinki
Institution for historical studies University of Gothenburg
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and made possible by the support from:
