Janna Holmstedt

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| works | projects | writing |stage | statement | resumé | recent and upcoming
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Theatre of Lost and Found Memories [work in progress]

A participatory performance installation in three parts, with synched soundtracks, wireless headphones, and a built environment with light, sound, projectons and actions.
 
   
 
 

This is not for you to see
This is for you to bear
And to hold


Are we living in an age of amnesia – an age in which everything is stored, but nothing is remembered?

Our identity is closely entwined with the everyday, and everyday life is soaked in normativity. In this performance istallation abnormality is used as a starting point in an attempt to sidestep that which we usually take for granted in our daily interactions with others. The structural set-up of the performance is an integral part of the narrative and hints towards a certain relation or position the visitor has to occupy in order to access the work. Thus the visitors find themselves situated within a context, which is not framed as an absolute truth or stable reality, but rather as a system that unfolds through a specific network where meanings are constructed.

As a visitor you enter a space, which is in the process of being deconstructed. The remains of a dismantled, anonymous interior has been left and construction materials have been roughly sorted in piles or stacked against the walls. Whatever it has been used for it seems to materialize Rem Koolhaas’ term “Junkspace”: the flexible, forgettable face of architecture.
In the performance three different positions/stories are framed, where loss of memory or an excess of memory is at the heart of the narrative. They can be experienced separately but together they form an intricate web of references and inter-relations, and after a while it becomes clear that the “Junkspace” is not only a physical state, but also a mental.

You and the other visitors are given wireless headphones and are shown by a host to three different starting positions in the space. The three positions indicate that three different stories are going to be told:
She had a Disturbing Feeling She was Always Present at the Wrong Moment
Often I Forget Where My Buttocks Are
Pink Elephant


"Theatre of Lost and Found Memories" is part of the research project ”What You See is not What You Get” at Umeå Academy of Fine Artsand Konstnärliga forskarskolan, Sweden.


Concept and realization: Janna Holmstedt
Language: English
Voices: Orenda Fink, Janna Holmstedt, Matt Wycoff
With support from:
Umeå Academy of Fine Arts

 
 
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