In the Arctic, there is a potentially fatal line between land ice and sea ice. We can be obsessed with wanting to know this line so as not to get caught on the wrong side.
And yet, the Arctic holds the promise of clarity. It is full of stark binaries, lines to be followed, lines not to be crossed. It holds a sense of solid time: the past is frozen in ice, the future held in the seeds of plant life, the present in the convergence of all time zones. It is also the place where the ancestors might reach us.
This is a ghost cantata, an Arctic sonata.
A song-scape about a woman’s search for an old wisdom that might show her how to read the dissolving landscape of life, so she will not get caught out and cut adrift. Tossed on the seas of loss and grief, she yearns to go back in time, to freeze the moment before loss happens.
Production
The Grotowski Institute
Creative
Director: Kamila Klamut
Performing: Emma Bonnici
Sound design: Áslaug Magnúsdóttir
Poster: Original linocut by Marta Horyza, designed by Betty Gunawan