‘IF’: Planning, Research and Co-creation of an Existential Installation-performance
Abstract
In her article “‘IF’: Planning, Research and Co-creation of an Existential Installation-performance” Rita Sebestyén offers an account of the research period and performances of the experimental, action-research based and interdisciplinary performance ‘IF’. The installation-performance was co-created by a group of Norwegian, Danish, Swedish and Hungarian artists, and conceived and produced for an international audience. ‘IF’ poses a series of existential questions throughout four interactive installations that allow the audience to interact and become co-creators of the performance, together with the performer-facilitator. Using biology, anthropology, mathematics, elements of gamification, sociology and futurology, this performance is a cross-disciplinary and cross-genre experience, and its research cycles are of both scientific and artistic interest, as the author points it out.
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Writer and director: Rita Sebestyen.
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Performer: Minni Katina Mertens in Copenhagen and Sara Vilardo in Naples.
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Light and sound designer: Ivan Wahren.
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Dramaturge: Mira Nadina Mertens.
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Assistant: Stine Ebbesen.
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Music: Ya Tosiba
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Support to the research: Forsøgsstationen, Copenhagen, 2017.
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