VERNISSAGE/GUIDED TOUR/STAGE READING

The only multigenre evening in this summer will offer you an opening of the exhibition Spirit World Rising by Anežka Hošková and Anders Grønlien. The program will also feature a guided tour through the current exhibition Enacting Stillness in the MeetFactory Gallery by the chief curator Jaro Varga and a stage reading of the new play Unburdened by one of the participating artist – Rehan Ansari.

SPIRIT WORLD RISING
The project called Spirit World Rising overlaps different mediums such as installation, scenography, sculpture, music, performance, documentation as well as two-dimensional works. The displayed works explore the reworking and merging of different religious and spiritual signifactors into an experimental syncretic expression. The project also seeks to utilize the inaguration of the exhibition as a ritual act in tune with the works on display.  

GUIDED TOUR OF AN EXHIBITION ENACTING STILLNESS
Enacting Stillness includes a group of visual and performance artists who are engaged with stillness, stoppage, and slowing down in the context of performance. Artists in the exhibition employ gestures that involve turning away, inward, and upward, upending our expectations for the continuity of dance and theatrical compositions and lines of movement and thought. Enacting Stillness considers the political and emotional potential that these unexpected ruptures might mean to both the artist and the viewer. Participating artists: Rehan Ansari, Nicolás Dumit Estévez  Brendan Fernandes, Yoko Inoue, Claudia Joskowicz, Kirsten Justesen, Clifford Owens, Jan Pfeiffer, Emily Roysdon, and Roman Stetina.

UNBURDENED - STAGE READING
Unburdened is set in the time around President Obama's inauguration when a journalist from Toronto, goes to Karachi where he becomes consumed with our inability to truly comprehend what it is to live inside a war. He glimpses our enemy's point of view: We see an argument for militancy that has a global audience. We observe the protagonist's struggles through his partner's eyes as he feverishly communicates with her over the phone and Skype. In Karachi he stays with Attiya and Saad, his elderly aunt and uncle who have lived with a terrible secret over the course of their 60-year relationship that began amidst the Partition of India.  

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