Garden of Memories
A performance installation
exposed at SCENKONSTBIENNALEN 2022,
Västerås, 7-11 June 2022
curated by
Benedikte Esperi
Elisabeth Laasonen Belgrano
Napo Masheane
Cia Runesson
Annikki Wahlöö
Minnenas trädgård inbjuder till stillhet,
kontemplation, eftertänkande och lågmälda samtal….
i den ekande tomheten av sorg, ovisshet och förlust.
Med värme….
Garden of Memories offers peace, silence, contemplation and quiet dialogues...
through echoing emptiness of sorrow, sadness, uncertainty and loss.
With warmth...
INSTRUCTIONS
(for the voice/sounding part of the garden)
welcome to the edge of the feast…
the corner where real and unreal is blurred and im/possible…
in this part of the Memorial Garden
there is
VOICE/S
listening / sounding
silence / thinking
bodies / words
ALL / NOTHING
moving
here there is
space/time for contemplation
alone
or with an Other
suggestion:
sitting
closing your eyes
whatever comes to you
let it
happen
deepen
un/fold
develop
dis/(e)rupt
dis/appear
broaden
crystallizing
doing
NOTHING
then…
when time is ripe
wander out / away / towards
where/ver
if you want to share any/thing…
perhaps leave a word on a piece of fragmented canvas …
I will also be available
for dialogue.
here or else-where:
elibelgrano@mac.com / +46 (0) 708-433.260
with warmth and care,
Eli.
References
soundscape: BLACKBIRD' created by Mark D. Price (2022)
this work is part of the Artistic Research project
NO SELF CAN TELL (Laasonen Belgrano & Price)
The voice-sounding part of the Garden of Memories
is curated by Eli. Laasonen Belgrano
BIO:
… PhD in Vocal Performance; performing contemporary & 17th century vocal music, pastoral care and existential counselling; awarded a PhD in Performance in Theatre and Music Drama for Performing Nothingness through Operatic Mad Scenes and Lamentations, Univ. of Gothenburg (2011); supervising and examining through ‘performative methodologies’; investigating the Art of (Vocal) Ornamentation as an intra-active research tool for ’measuring’ Nothingness and the Unknown; becoming a priest in The Church of Sweden.
