Upcoming events

Laura Cemin & Bianca Hisse:

How the Land Lies

Helsinki: Kiasma Theatre

• 14.4.2023 at 19–20
• 15.4.2023 at 15–16
• 20.4.2023 at 19–20
• 21.4.2023 at 19–20
• 22.4.2023 at 15–16

Dublin: Aerowaves Festival

22.4.2023

How the Land Lies is a performance for 5 bodies and 3 LED scrolling signs. These LEDs, usually encountered in public spaces as low-key advertisement signs, become tools to address the politics of language. Navigating between tourism slogans and visa questionnaires the dancers, who themselves carry experiences of migration and displacement between countries; interact with the text scrolling on the LED panels. As the words move on the screens, the bodies equally move them. Borders slowly blur: who can stay and who must leave? Who is seen and who remains hidden? What is allowed and what is forbidden?

Working group: Laura Cemin, Bianca Hisse, Mercedes Balarezo, Georgie Goater, Keithy Kuuspu, Giorgia Lolli, Fornier Ortiz, Sofia Ivarsson, VeraVice, Petri Henriksson