Drifting Tomorrow
The first and foremost reason we decided to do this project was our interest in investigating modes and ways of working together in an artistic context. We wanted to navigate and get lost in what this kind of work could be rather than defining exactly what it is. With focus on the how, rather than the what, we wish to find fresh and intriguing ways to collaborate and trigger questions rather than give answers.
As common interests we have identified nostalgia and the aesthetics of cinema. We approach the notion of nostalgia from several angles: as a condition, as a reference to the past, as a possibility for the future. We use technology (light and sound equipment) and visual and audial references as mediums for figuring out how history and the past affects us. We also want to work with the notion of a nostalgic utopia by asking what kind of future can emerge from giving interconnected autonomy to different elements in the performance space. How can we use nostalgia for building a better future and not only dwell in the good old days?
We recreate cinematic scenes on stage in order to research the modes of fiction and reality in film and performance. We investigate the relations between the moving image and the ephemerality, fleshiness and event-nature of performance. This is closely related to the theme of nostalgia, since film is an essential archive for capturing moods and atmospheres in the 20th and 21st centuries.
Creation and performance: Angela Bundalovic, Ágnes Grélinger, Sara Grotenfelt and Andreas Haglund
Performed at The Danish National School of Performing Arts, CND Paris and Stockholm Fringe Festival 2017.
Trailer: Drifting Tomorrow
https://driftingtomorrow.wordpress.com
As common interests we have identified nostalgia and the aesthetics of cinema. We approach the notion of nostalgia from several angles: as a condition, as a reference to the past, as a possibility for the future. We use technology (light and sound equipment) and visual and audial references as mediums for figuring out how history and the past affects us. We also want to work with the notion of a nostalgic utopia by asking what kind of future can emerge from giving interconnected autonomy to different elements in the performance space. How can we use nostalgia for building a better future and not only dwell in the good old days?
We recreate cinematic scenes on stage in order to research the modes of fiction and reality in film and performance. We investigate the relations between the moving image and the ephemerality, fleshiness and event-nature of performance. This is closely related to the theme of nostalgia, since film is an essential archive for capturing moods and atmospheres in the 20th and 21st centuries.
Creation and performance: Angela Bundalovic, Ágnes Grélinger, Sara Grotenfelt and Andreas Haglund
Performed at The Danish National School of Performing Arts, CND Paris and Stockholm Fringe Festival 2017.
Trailer: Drifting Tomorrow
https://driftingtomorrow.wordpress.com
Photography: Jihyung Yinukhi Yeo