Interior Motives: The Musical - A Performance Project by Dafna Maimon

Interior Motives: The Musical explores both an interior world of the body-mind and the dynamics of a collective creative process. Drawing on the technique of Authentic-Stream-Of-Consciousness-Singing, developed by artist Dafna Maimon, the performance emerges through surreal meandering scenes where everyday life and the act of creating art intersect.

The musical is an evolution of two earlier versions of the project: The Household Musical, performed at Villa Skeppet in Tammisaari—the smallest private home designed by Alvar Aalto—and the 3-channel video work Homebody, currently part of Maimon’s’’ exhibition Symptoms at Kiasma.

Interior Motives: The Musical, also builds on themes from Homebody, where the home is imagined as a living organism—an interconnected space, where together with its human inhabitants, microbes roam about, and even traces of history have a life of their own. The video work featured the dualist philosopher Descartes as a miniature figure as an embodiment of existential struggle, and in the new performance iteration, this idea is expanded to consider the relationship between individual bodies and the collective body-mind of the ensemble and its audience.

This new iteration of the project invites the audience into the interiority of a creative process by bringing them “backstage” to examine more integrated ways of experiencing the world—ones that acknowledge both the joys and challenges of personal and collective perspectives.

The performance programme of Dafna Maimon’s solo exhibition.

The audience has the opportunity to delve into Maimon’s working processes and take part in a somatic workshop led by AD Kerton before the performance.

TICKETS
Performance 25 / 15 €, Workshop & performance 30 / 20 €

Holders of the Museum Card are entitled to a discounted ticket price!

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