ensemble for new music and performance art
based in Copenhagen since 2019
re- (2023)
Olga Szymula [concept, composition, choreography]
Rob Durnin [synthesizer]
Mikkel Schou [guitar]
Joss Smith [clarinet]
Hsiao-Tung Yuan [percussion]
Kaspar Peters [filming] at HearMyEyes studios
Olga Szymula [concept, composition, choreography]
Rob Durnin [synthesizer]
Mikkel Schou [guitar]
Joss Smith [clarinet]
Hsiao-Tung Yuan [percussion]
Kaspar Peters [filming] at HearMyEyes studios
“re-” is based on K!ART’s individual and collective qualities, personalities, histories and geographies. Olga Szymula works with the idea of enactment and re-enactment. Actions on stage echo in the video and vice-versa. Various interpretations of memories and actions are re-enacted live in front of the audience. Those re-enactments are forms of re-interpretations, different possible imagined outcomes that can play out.
Szymula frames the live and projected performers in distinct settings and costumes. Freed from the burden of their histories, they diegetically travel back in time to the beginning and origins of their passion and curiosity. "re-" explores re-visiting a playfulness and re-connecting to the sources of initial passion for music, a joyful celebration of togetherness and individuality.
Szymula frames the live and projected performers in distinct settings and costumes. Freed from the burden of their histories, they diegetically travel back in time to the beginning and origins of their passion and curiosity. "re-" explores re-visiting a playfulness and re-connecting to the sources of initial passion for music, a joyful celebration of togetherness and individuality.
Press
︎Glissando: Becoming MINU 2023
︎Seismograf: Skal det nu være morsomt? Åh ja!
Photos by Tobias Nicolai.
“re-” was commissioned by MINU Festival with support from Statens Kunstfond and KODA.
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