Lady of Situations Live : Off the Shelf Festival
LoS Live'This lady of the forest
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Forest Fears'It’s easy enough to disappear like that from a life. One minute you’re living it, the next you’re forced to vanish. You run away, you’re chased away, you’re taken away from everything you took for granted.'
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Calling Tiresias'Truth, like water, will out beyond silence. A trickle or a deluge, it matters not.'
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This collaboration between Vanitas Arts & writer Seni Seneviratne explores themes of power and control, containment and punishment, gender identity, language and silence, trauma and recovery using ancient myths, which resonate with contemporary themes.
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On October 25th 2016 we launched the installation and immersive performance Lady of Situations as part of the Off the Shelf Festival in Sheffield.
It contains two mythical characters, Philomel and Tiresias. Delivered in a Vanitas style, it comprises of photographs, video, performance, written and spoken word/poems, soundtrack.
Lady of Situations uses video, photography, soundscape, live music (cello) and poetry to explore key issues that the artists have a strong connection to and are current global themes. Presented as a 60 minute performance based piece, the audience is immersed deep in a forest where Philomela's 'strange cries' convey her experience of rejection, exile and metamorphosis. Responding to her call, Tiresias, who has, 'tasted both sides of a gendered life' bears witness to her story.
A 'hall of mirrors. There are many versions. Betrayal is at the heart of all of them. In this one you find her in a riven place where lichen clots the bark of trees. Black slate erupts like ancient standing stones. Old voices in the wind play tricks. And nature seems to be without mercy'.
It contains two mythical characters, Philomel and Tiresias. Delivered in a Vanitas style, it comprises of photographs, video, performance, written and spoken word/poems, soundtrack.
Lady of Situations uses video, photography, soundscape, live music (cello) and poetry to explore key issues that the artists have a strong connection to and are current global themes. Presented as a 60 minute performance based piece, the audience is immersed deep in a forest where Philomela's 'strange cries' convey her experience of rejection, exile and metamorphosis. Responding to her call, Tiresias, who has, 'tasted both sides of a gendered life' bears witness to her story.
A 'hall of mirrors. There are many versions. Betrayal is at the heart of all of them. In this one you find her in a riven place where lichen clots the bark of trees. Black slate erupts like ancient standing stones. Old voices in the wind play tricks. And nature seems to be without mercy'.
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