February 2023, I was invited to the premiere of Mikkel Hess and HESS IS MORE's APOLLONIAN BLACKOUT at Teater SORT/HVID in Copenhagen. I had heard that the work was a multitembral installation of music, scenography, choreography - concert and theater and everything in between. I grabbed my camera on my way out the door... what if...!
Mikkel Hess on drums at SORTHVID Theatre, February 9, 2023.
The show opened in orange smoke; and soon I found myself in the cracks between experience and creation - as much as I was allowed to experience a performance, I was also faced with creating my experience of that performance to the extent that I maybe became a co-creator? The installation made me a part of its organism, and my camera's eye became part of the whole experience in strange ways.
The blackout also came to us in the end - as an accident or a carefully planned event disguised as an accident? This question, like the whole flow of the evenings' experience, still vibrates somewhere between yes and no, between explosion and blackout.
The blackout also came to us in the end - as an accident or a carefully planned event disguised as an accident? This question, like the whole flow of the evenings' experience, still vibrates somewhere between yes and no, between explosion and blackout.
Camera: Fujifilm X100V, Fujinon Super EBC 23mm f/2
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