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• Performance +Publikumsgespräch
• Love
• Grieve
• Immersive Installation

• Mi., 21.12.2022, 16:00

Publikumsgespräch zu 'My undying love/ Songs of grief'

'My undying love/ Songs of grief' by HIMHERANDIT and Vanasay Khampommala present an intimate, multidisciplinary piece in which up to 5 audience members participate in an immersive performance.

• 1A collaborative work that simultaneously tells a universal story about death and love.
• 2 Vera Shchelkina, somatische Tanzkünstlerin

The audience is immersed in an expansive installation and formulates a love letter to all things human. Between ritual, visual art storytelling, a 3d sound installation and a 360° video panorama, experiences of letting go and finding again are shared. After the Performance on the last day of the installation there will be an audience talk. The artistic team Andreas Constantinou, Dagmara Bilon, Vanasay Khamphommala will be present to share their thoughts together with the audience on how do we love? How do we grief? How can we give grief space in our modern society?

About the venue

Kunstquartier Bethanien

The central deaconess institute ‚Bethanien‘ was constructed during the years 1845-47, commissioned by the pious King Friedrich Wilhelm IV who was known as the ‚romantic of the Prussian throne‘. In 1843 he reintroduced the Society of Our Lady (Order of Swan) that his forefather, Kurfürst Friedrich II of Brandenburg had founded four hundred years previously. One of his tasks was to construct an institute for educating nurses and carers „which, as a model for other similar institutions, would be affiliated with a home for the sick.“Since 1973 it is predominantly cultural, artistic and social institutions working in the main building.

http://kunstquartier-bethanien.de 

About the piece

HIMHERANDIT/Vanasay Khamphommala

HIMHERANDIT/Vanasay Khamphommala present an award-winning, intimate, multidisciplinary piece in which up to 5 audience members participate in an immersive performance. A collaborative work that simultaneously tells a universal story about death and love. The audience is immersed in an expansive installation and formulates a love letter to all things human. Between ritual, visual art storytelling, a 3d sound installation and a 360° video panorama, experiences of letting go and finding again are shared. With "Songs of grief" Vanasay Khampommala opens a second space, a space of silence, of music, of voice. It is a place of reverberation, of "aftercare" in which ephemeral, ever-changing and participatory soundscapes are created. "My undying love" was awarded the Scenekunstens Priser Award 2021 and was nominated for the Reumert Award and the Aarhus Stage Art Award 2022.

About the artists

HIMHERANDIT und Vanasay Khamphommala

Andreas Constantinou is a choreographer, performance artist, and the Artistic Director of HIMHERANDIT Productions. He is an established dance teacher and lecturer and has taught at academies, universities, and schools throughout the world. Since 2013 Andreas focuses primarily on the artistic direction at HIMHERANDIT Productions and has since presented artistic works in theatres, galleries, and festivals throughout Europe. He is part of the NORDWIND Festival 2021.
Vanasay Khamphommala is a French-Lao dramaturg and performer who trained as a musician (but found it too difficult) and an academic (but found it too competitive). In 2017, they founded Lapsus chevelü and presented their first performance L’Invocation à la muse with performer and dominatrix Caritia Abell at the Festival d’Avignon in 2018.