Memory in the Dead Zone/Prisoner - T0666869778Memory in the Dead Zone - Set in the border zone that runs through Nicosia, the last divided city in Europe, at its southernmost periphery in Cyprus, Memory in the Dead Zone is both a multimedia retelling of the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice and an autobiographical performance exploring contested memories and war. Moving between different pasts, between Cyprus and a host of unnamed cities, Memory in the Dead Zone celebrates becoming diasporic through poetry, myth, home movies, photographs and all the digital detritus of the 21st century. Prisoner - The Studio for Electronic Theatre (http://www.setlab.eu) performance Prisoner is a contemporary retelling of the story of Medea, a mythical heroine whom the history of theatre, literature and art has endowed with the horrible crimes she never committed. Scarred by war and exile, falsely accused and imprisoned, awaiting her sentence, Medea remembers... The performance is inspired by the Rozanne Hawksley's work Prisoner. The agonizing and horrifying experience of war presented in a form of a mutilated and dehumanized women's body, speaks in Hawksley's sculpture in its own language about the unspeakable. Using techniques inspired by the ?theatre of cruelty', with the physical bodies intertwined with digital imagery, this performance seeks to reestablish the missing emotional link between the images of war and our spoiled perception of them in the self-obsessed culture of I Me Mine. The performances will be preceded by curator tours of War Artists at Sea, led by Dr Melanie Vandenbrouck, and Rozanne Hawksley War and Memory, led by Dr Amy MillerPresented byDARE (Digital Arts Research & Enterprise). Author Alev Adil (Memory in the Dead Zone). Director Fahrudin Nuno Salihbegovic (Memory in the Dead Zone). Performer Alev Adil (Memory in the Dead Zone). Music Steve Kennedy (Memory in the Dead Zone). Director Fahrudin Nuno Salihbegovic (Prisoner). | |
16 Oct 14 to 17 Oct 14 | General, Outer London :: V1087 listing details L770724800 |