MIND SPLIT = SIAMESE TWINS
CONCEPT
NICOLINA STYLIANOU
MIND SPLIT = SIAMESE TWINS negotiates the state where objects are not yet identified. Through this work, there is a strong relation with Friedrich Nietzsche’s early philosophical work found in ’The Birth of Tragedy’ (1872) where Nietzsche is concerned with the Apolline and the Dionysiac stances. In this performance, there is a consequent affiliation with information and noise. The core of this research comes from autobiographical narratives that are transposed into metaphors that hold a mythical but also a literal imagery. The work studies the fundamental nature of an artwork as a hybrid body that consists both Apolline and Dionysiac cultures inside one another. In other words, this work is less of a mind split and more likesiamese-twins.
Keywords: Hydra, Dithyramb, Serpent and Lily, loops, noise, rituals, Apollo, Dionysos, Friedrich Nietzsche, horse, John Cage, Minotaur, womb
direction, dramaturgy and performance with Dithyramb
Nicolina Stylianou (Live Art and Performance Studies, MA thesis artistic project)
performance dramaturgy as MC Friedrich
Louna-Tuuli Luukka (EDma)
sound design and performance
Jouni Ilari Tapio (Äma)
movement performance with Hydra
Suvi Tuominen (LAPS)
performance with Serpent and Lily and Dithyramb
Riikka Talvitie (DocMus)
production manager
Maria Kaihovirta
stage manager
Heli Litmanen
light design
Aleksi Karjalainen
costume development
Anne Lehto
photos captured by
Julius Töyrylä
CONCEPT
NICOLINA STYLIANOU
MIND SPLIT = SIAMESE TWINS negotiates the state where objects are not yet identified. Through this work, there is a strong relation with Friedrich Nietzsche’s early philosophical work found in ’The Birth of Tragedy’ (1872) where Nietzsche is concerned with the Apolline and the Dionysiac stances. In this performance, there is a consequent affiliation with information and noise. The core of this research comes from autobiographical narratives that are transposed into metaphors that hold a mythical but also a literal imagery. The work studies the fundamental nature of an artwork as a hybrid body that consists both Apolline and Dionysiac cultures inside one another. In other words, this work is less of a mind split and more likesiamese-twins.
Keywords: Hydra, Dithyramb, Serpent and Lily, loops, noise, rituals, Apollo, Dionysos, Friedrich Nietzsche, horse, John Cage, Minotaur, womb
direction, dramaturgy and performance with Dithyramb
Nicolina Stylianou (Live Art and Performance Studies, MA thesis artistic project)
performance dramaturgy as MC Friedrich
Louna-Tuuli Luukka (EDma)
sound design and performance
Jouni Ilari Tapio (Äma)
movement performance with Hydra
Suvi Tuominen (LAPS)
performance with Serpent and Lily and Dithyramb
Riikka Talvitie (DocMus)
production manager
Maria Kaihovirta
stage manager
Heli Litmanen
light design
Aleksi Karjalainen
costume development
Anne Lehto
photos captured by
Julius Töyrylä
