Project

Liis Vares, Taavet Jansen

Held in Human II: Rose in Your Brain

Flower seed inside you
Rose inside you
Flowering and prickling
Rose in your brain

Authors:
Liis Vares and Taavet Jansen
Mixed reality solution:
Norbert Pape
Sound design:
Mihkel Tomberg
Graphic design:
Jaan Evart
Room design:
Mari Möldre
Photographer:
Alissa Šnaider
Producer:
Anu Almik, elekrton.art
Premiere:
14.11.2024 at University of Tartu Library
Next performances:
15.-28.11.2024. UT Library is open Mon-Fr 9-21 ja Sat-Sun 12-18
Festivals:
26.-27.10 showing PAD festival Wiesbaden Germany and 2-5.11 showing IMPACT festival Liege Belgium
Supporters:
Estonian Ministry of Culture, Cultural Endowment of Estonia, Tallinn city, Dortmund Academy of Theater and Digitality, Estonian Academy of Arts through the ACuTe project, Erasmus program, VARES Valga Architecture Residency, University of Tartu

Something is changing, I can no longer make sense of what here means, as I increasingly feel that while I am here, I am also always a little bit there. There, where my thoughts are, there where my imagination roams — and not only mine, but someone else’s as well, simultaneously. It is real. I am always inside a body, in this form that makes me visible and touchable; yet I am also always in a space, where no one can see me. It is a space of thought, an invisible space, but also an ever-present network, a movement. I am present, held in human.

‘Held in Human II: Rose in Your Brain’ is a mixed reality performance, a collective thought space where linguistic thinking meets the instinctive physique. It is a physical reading experience, choreography of thoughts that you can experience within your own body using mixed reality glasses. Plug in — let your body and thoughts carry you.