Ash, horizon, riding a house
In a world where land, language and folklore have become commodities, the only place you’re invited back is outside, where greenery is no longer the primary reference. Instead, uneven floorboards, illusion mirrors, and trickster steps form profitable landscapes.
Nüganen, KISLING and Sova, as a reaction, open up their ice-manufacturing business. In the backdrop of nightmares and constant dripping, they navigate between multiple perspectives on locality, accompanied by CDJs and a banjo. At Earth’s magnitude, they are specks of dust, and next to geological time, as if on speed. They trace locality from places where the influence of one dominant culture has made imported goods part of folklore, while the word ‘local’ still adds value when making choices as a tourist.
Ash, horizon, riding a house is a series of chain reactions that invites the audience to envision a belonging – one that cannot be seen from here. It must be imagined.
(she/her/doomer) uses the performative moment to question what forms of spectatorship are needed and what’s at stake. Establishing connections with the past, Nüganen forms an intentional look upon the present, wishing to extend the perspective towards the future. Treating everything known with careful deconstruction, she reshapes storytelling – using this method to operate in the gaps between recognisable signs and language. Nüganen’s works have been shown a. o. at festivals such as My Wild Flag, Batard, Pre-Urbaines, Lisbon Film Festival and ImPulsTanz and at KIM? Contemporary Art Centre, Kanuti Gildi SAAL, Lewisham Art Gallery and TQW. Next to that, she has been touring since 2017 with Florentina Holzinger’s performances.
is an artist and stage designer, a former stripper, whose posthumanist art practice focuses on facets of identity such as community, collective creativity and gender. Next to working on performances and solo and group exhibitions, she organises art events and festivals on environmental issues and gender equality. She co-founded a participatory performance series and a fluid collective called Persona. Her works have been shown a. o. at NSFW, Online Gallery Gothenburg, Tallinna Art Hall, HOIB Gallery, EKKM Tallinn, Kim? Contemporary Art Centre, Draakon Gallery, and various clubs.
composition method, highly informed by digital processing and meant for contemporary DJ equipment, subtracts and morphs live recorded samples into concrete snippets that propose a ‘new real’. At a notable turning point in history where geopolitical, social and ecological issues press into our daily lives, KISLING invokes a feeling for what might be at loss. She arranges and distorts her tunes on a set of Pioneer CDJs, giving way to an imaginative material that scrutinises the limits and promise of music. KISLING is a co-founder of the group Guiding Light; she has performed a. o. at Unsafe Sounds, The Glove That Fits, London, Volksbühne, Berlin, Kunsthalle Wien and TQW.
Credits
Concept, choreography Netti Nüganen Performance Netti Nüganen, Pire Sova, KISLING Sound design KISLING Scenography, costume Pire Sova Light design Klimentina Li Text Netti Nüganen Dramaturgical support Bouchra Lamsyeh House costume Zody Burke Ice moulds Madlen Hirtentreu Production management partner in crime, Kaie Küünal – A production by Netti Nüganen in coproduction with Tanzquartier Wien and Kanuti Gildi SAAL, Tallinn. Supported by the Municipal Department of Cultural Affairs, Vienna, the Austrian Federal Ministry of Arts, Culture, the Civil Service and Sports, Cultural Endowment of Estonia, Valmiera Summer Theatre Festival. Thank you to Valentin Alfery, Gibrana Cervantes, TURBO residency (ImPulsTanz), ERROR residency (CDMX), Arvo Pärt Centre.
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