THE OTHER LAYER
“I am highly inspired by those who came before us. The world is free like nobody knows running. The cultural front is good as an empire of mind game and thoughts in spirality of sort “
-Edet Cane
Our intentions are in remembering and feeling. Language creates an architecture, and we find formations to escape. Death seems as near as it is far, like life.
the deep waters seem still
the deserts seem still
the belief systems seem still
An engine is running and the body is just getting started, the tectonic plates seem still but are moving approximately at the speed that your fingernails grow. The structural mathematics take shapes through our flesh, and we are counting our breaths until the night falls. We prepare for the fake rain with umbrellas and our calculated actions in the midnight sun bear fruit.
As characters we embody expressions as an infinite revolution coming from a place of vulnerability, transformation and belonging. We are moving to resist our hearts going numb, to be alive and to confront the limitations that keep us from genuinely connecting to each other as a healing entanglement.
How can we imagine concrete geographical features in altering characters?
We find the ways nature is coded in different languages, symbolic and calligraphic.
Characteristically immersing through fabrics,
becoming less medicated falling into more fruition
The diversion in spiritual growth, physically mathematical, like words added in action, so highly intellectual, and the oppression today in relation to what one dreams of tomorrow
This performance is a container of:
So, we are looking for feelings and what is this about?
We will find out.
What in the world are we imagining?
There is no one who knows it all, I guess we are all just trying our best and reflect my life evolutionary in mannerism and being.
PERFORMANCE SCORE:
characters
wind and water is a storm
tutti frutti fruticans
wordplay with eye contact
flirt is poetry
Full expression of raw movement
Creatures of change in the midnight sun
Decomposing root canals
That the dedication for dance and shared movement memory never fades
Dancing, singing and rollerskating
Showcases
Fake rain
Live video feed mixed with archive material
Sound made on stage with electroacoustic improvisation
Heavy beats speaking through moving bodies in connection to all beyond us
color palette: red split lentils, mungo bean and pea, rose and sun
a lot of jewellery
heels and sneakers
a uniform of sort
fabrics leather, kitengez, big thin silky fabric to make shapes with
1 mattress
1 field kitchen
water jug
cooking oil
cream
the engine needs to wake up and be
more active for the entire celebration
MOVEMENT SCORE:
Tectonic movement eruption
Volcanic in nature
Plate tectonics
Continental drift
INSTALLED spatially relating MOVEMENT
building stage by moving imagination
structuring the body
leaning back
taking a break
stop motion frame
magma running movement
precision and effect
clean cuts
24h as a concept
mechanical movement
calculated actions
structurally mathematic contact
and counting breath
SCENOGRAPHY
construction site container imagined
built wooden platform
rock to paint on
rail
ropes
plants
GEOMETRIC QUESTIONS for movement:
How to negotiate distance?
Solo, duo, tandem, chaos, group of two?
There is after all many characters
How many times can I meet you for the first time? Or never because we have always known each other?
What is my form?
SOUND
experimental electronic music
various grooves
singing, voicing
improvising a beat on drum machine and with the body (in theatre space micing the space)
sound system visible on stage
acoustic sound, guitar, xylophone, drums, voice
engine sounds
VISUALS
photo archives
live video feed
WORKING GROUP:
Authors, performers, choreographers sound- and light design, visuals, set and costume design: Edet Cane and Lintu Lover
Photographer: Zoe Elischika
BIOS:
EDET CANE is primarily a self-taught Ugandan visual & performance artist currently based in Helsinki, Europe. He has an extensive background in Hiphop global cultural education & dance art movement. In his artistic practice, he explores the discomfort rooted in the body through various movement practices and techniques that help open, release and heal the pain and traumas from within and outside the cosmic body.
He has been performing locally and internationally across East Africa and Europe; Finland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, France, Netherlands, Belgium and Germany. He has participated in festivals like Batalo East, Nyege Nyege, Breakfast jam, and attained Arts Education Training under the Batalo East cultural urban art program Equation. He has performed on big Contemporary Dance Theatre stages in Helsinki; Zodiak Stage, Dance House Helsinki, Stoa and Kiasma Theatre. Edet has been a part of Dance Theatre productions: One Drop, Alice In the Wonderland, Nordic Hiphop to the stage, Texture of Connection and worked with established directors like Sonya Lindfors. He has taken part in following residence programs: The Tero Saarinen summer residency program and a working residency for the One Drop production at Tanzfabriken in Berlin.
links to previous work:
LINTU/LIPGLOSSBOY is a multidisciplinary artist, performer, dancer, poet and a music producer. He works with memory pattern embodiment, sense of belonging and ancestral trans(gender) dimensions. In his art all fantasies get physical. He states that fantasy is already true in itself and the division between fantasy and reality has transitioned beyond binary codes.
His performances have been shown at Helsinki Music Hall, Kiasma Contemporary Art Museum in Helsinki, New Fears Gallery in Berlin. His sound works have been presented as a part of Gentle Together -exhibition at VBKÖ Gallery in Wien, and online as a part of Summer of the Arts-publication in Helsinki. Electronic music live sets he has played at Club Kaiku, HAM-corner, Helsinki City Museum and Kontula Electronics-festival.
He has also self-published a wide discography varying from electroacoustic improvisation to electronic dance music and alternative pop. Next February he and the working group are presenting a dance piece Amor4Ever at Mad House in Helsinki.
website and portfolio:
