Crying by the Sea

Workshop 20.4.2024 at Tårnby Park Studio
Installation 03.09. – 15.09 2024 at Tårnby Park Performance Festival 2024 Økocity 2.0

About PROJECT
The workshop is an activation of a migratory installation that acts as a pre-study and writing workspace for the theatre performance Crying by the Sea, which takes place in 2025. In the installation, we investigate the colonial history of the internet as submarine cable lines that transported Morse code between the UK and colonised overseas territories. We also examine how block chain technology, open source coding and decentralised server systems can be used in decolonising ways when it comes to the distribution of resources, attention and information. We will also look at the position of the spectator in performance production and ask questions related to the spectator’s rights as a content producer in contemporary immersive theatre production.
The theatre production, Crying by the Sea, touches on the sea of grief associated with socio-economic migration through collective writing processes and on-stage role-playing that connects audiences in Denmark and Tunisia. The performance project unfolds through non-linear chapters in 2024 and 2025

 

About Monia Sander Haj-Mohamed
Monia Sander Haj-Mohamed lives and works in a field between writing, performance art, and direction. With references to the theater, Haj-Mohamed explores the range of the performative space where reality and fiction blend, and where the distinction between real people and literary characters is blurred. She graduated from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in 2020 and was the artistic director of Momentum Theater in the 21/22 season. Through Forlaget Korridor, she published “Dominique” in 2015 and “The Alexander Trilogy – a Performance Essay in Three Acts” in 2019, for which she received the Schade Prize. She has exhibited at O-Overgaden, the National Gallery of Denmark, and Amager Psychiatric Hospital, and is part of the decentralized exhibition platforms Hosting Lands and theatrebuilding.com.

About moltamole [Eliza Bozek]
moltamole [Eliza Bozek]: Copenhagen based artist with a background in electronic music and performing arts – oriented sound design, working within the field of composition, installation, dance, theater and digital art. Sound poses a medium via which moltamole lets herself explore and absorb external environments, as well as sonify inner, emotional landscapes. The intimacy of her sonic meandering is often imbued with field recordings, voice, noise, ASMR or poetry. Preoccupied by sonic tactility, she often weaves textural compositions and abstract soundscapes. A lot of her current work is conceptual, evolving around creating scores for composition and room sound design. Graduated from Den Danske Scenekunstskole (Copenhagen) and Catalyst (Berlin). Some of the projects she has been involved in are: MINOTAUR GRL [Inter Arts Center], GROUNDINGS [O – Overgaden], ENTANGLED [Det Kongelige Teater], TRAGISKE MÅDER AT SLÅ EN KVINDE IHJEL PÅ [Odense Teater] or SCINITLLAE [Basement, Teater MOMENTUM].