Cross the
Bridge
Cross
the Bridge is a piece about
the will of trying to understand, accept and re-new parts in ones identity.
It
traces down images of nostalgia
and the processes of remembering through which our personal and collective
identities
are
formed.
How does
one remember into the future, then? The starting points for Cross the bridge
are embedded
in the
stories of women and changes in conceptions in moments where ideas are
transformed through generations.
By
following up objects, such as my grandmothers shoes and national costume from
Antrea and my mothers disco- outfit,
Im
making a visual and conceptual composition of the stories around these things.
Cross the Bridge tries to recycle
mental/spiritual
materia through these signs, by mixing visual layouts of different decades and
with this process find
collective
notions of differences and similarities of our identities in changing flows of
time. The piece is not a family research,
nostalgia
trip or a drama fiction. It is intertextual, interdiscplinary and without a
concluding statement. It follows up DJ- logic.
Cross
the Bridge consists of a sound track, performers speech, video image, objects
and physical movement/dance.
3
televisions are looping the video part from different parts, so that the
audience can see 3 different moving images simultaneously.
The
televisions frame the space of the performer, Maija. Parallel moving images, the
performers movement and the text spoken
knit the
time conception of Cross the Bridge into a circular form; the past, present
and the future appear as each others layers.
Maija
Hirvanen approaches literature from an intertextual and interdisciplinary point
of view. For
her,
words are reminders about texts that we have heard, exprerienced and written but
also compose our
present
and future conceptions of imagination and reality.
In Cross
the Bridge searching, dream is real and both wonder and figth a part of daily
existence. The piece is a physical,
poetical
and conceptual composition and it is being inspired by Virginia Woolfs novel
To the
Lighthouse,
numerous texts that Maija has written to her diaries within 7 years and the hazy
qualities of
early
morning light in Turku, Finland
Maija
Hirvanen
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