This is fiction//you are fiction too
23-24 January 2018 at Dansens Hus (Stockholm)
Concept , Choreography and Direction_Mirko Guido
Created with and Performed by_Kenneth Bruun
Rehearsal Director_Patricia VΓ‘zquez Iruretagoyena
Set, Video and Light Design_Jens Sethzman
Music_Bernhard GΓΌnter (Un Peu de Neige Salie - Origin: Untitled I-II-III-IV 92); (Monochrome Rust), John Duncan and Bernhard GΓΌnter (Home, Unspeakable) β composed by Mirko Guido
Texts_Kenneth Bruun, Mirko Guido and appropriated excerpts from: Samuel Beckett (The Unnamable, Not I, Play), David Lynchβs movie dialogues (Lost Highway, Mulholland Drive, Inland Empire), Wikipedia and other internet sources
Production_Patricia VΓ‘zquez Iruretagoyena and Mirko Guido
Thanks to_Anna Pehrsson, Anna Grip, Tina Fredriksson Eriksson, Christofer Fredriksson, Eva Mohn, Katrine Johansen and Adam SchΓΌtt
Administration_Interim Kultur
Co-produced by_Dansens Hus Stockholm
Artistic residencies_PACT Zollverein, Weld and C.off
With the contribution of_KulturrΓ₯det, KonstnΓ€rsnΓ€mden and Italian Institute of Culture Stockholm
K is a fictitious character made of true stories, or stories that could have been true, that might have been true, or neither of those. However, K is made of actual places, spaces and emotions.
K is interpreted by Kenneth. Kenneth is the living tissue of K, and both his timeless poetic self and his real-time prose self.
This is fiction//you are fiction too is a machinery of dreams and undetermined stories. In this story K is intent on re-enacting and re-embodying the narratives of Kenneth. The attempts and the failings in reproducing the real, give life to a fiction-within-fictions that, although unreal, feels more real than reality.
This is fiction//you are fiction too is an artistic project on the deconstruction of the idea of subject towards the perception of a choreographic self, where the distinction between fiction and reality is precarious.
The project initial questions were: How many realities and narratives are held into one body? What is the distance between the fiction (me) and the real (me)? What shapes what?
This is fiction//you are fiction too is work where movement, sound, a blowing floor and live video projection come together to create an unintelligible world. The work is suspended between and beyond genres to create a landscape that tests the sense of reality, to enter the sphere of unbelief, where fictions make themselves real.
The performance is an interplay between universes of fantasies, memories and invisible forces presented through the sensorial body in the fleeting now. Every gesture is the materialisation of past traces carved in the present moment; a constant dialogue between embodied history, memories, senses and emotions. This action of transcendence between embodiment and disembodiment produces a series of ever changing self-portraits, and a tension that suspends any representation to a state of incompleteness.
The performance is a close-up look at the minimal shifts of dimensionality that make the character of this semi-abstract world moving through his journey; itβs an intimate sharing of interior states and stories, which resonate as refracted into the unintelligible world. The journey evolves through delicate changes, with rhythmic textures that overlap like shadows to keep the potential narrations aloft.
The space and his protagonist sway between self and non-self, between presence in the now, in the memory and in the imaginary, generating theatrical and filmic images full of unresolved tensions.