Concept, research & direction:
Maria Brænder in collaboration with Francis Mulholland & Sunniva Eira Saetering
Performers:
Claus Otto, Francis Mulholland, Laura Fisher, Madeleine Virginia Brown, Maria Brænder and Sunniva Eira Saetering
Electroacoustic composition:
Nora Marazaite in collaboration with Maria Brænder and Sunniva Eira Saetering
Lighting design:
Jazz Hurtsby
Encomium (2016)
Three-hour durational performance installation, Royal Conservatoire of Scotland (Chandler Theatre), Glasgow
“The fireworks of the Apocalypse are not there to prepare you for a rapturous upload to Heaven, but on the contrary, to make you ready to avoid being chased off the Earth by Earth’s own reaction to your presence.” - Bruno Latour in his Gifford Lectures, 2013.
Through installation, movement and music, Encomium questions the fetishization of apocalyptic narratives in our time.
Photographs taken by Ken Dundas