MAGICAL METAMORPHOSIS
120′, performance
august 2020, Tartu Interdisciplinary art festival
Made with Elina Masing
A naive-experimental performance co-created with the director Elina Masing. “Magical Metamorphosis” worked with the dissonance of reality as a conflict, followed post-truth strategies using irony and references. Open to the audience, both honest and fake.
Review (in Estonian):
https://www.temuki.ee/archives/2375 Riina Oruaas „Tartu interdistsiplinaar”, brikolööride pidu 26.–29. VIII 2020
“However, Elina Masing’s and Liisbeth Horn’s “Magical Metamorphosis” is a pure provocation, already from its grand title. The show crossed all kinds of boundaries, knowing that all these boundaries had already long since been crossed, and this was done by joking about themselves and everything else. “Magical Metamorphosis” is the ABC of modern performing arts and at the same time a self-parody, which included all media, including feces produced on stage. Interdisciplinarity really took on a meaning here (through) the art of stamping and quoting clichés.
[–] The performance was deliberately poor in dramaturgy, stretchy, semi-improvisational, at times just staring, and flirted with all sorts of topical issues in both performing arts and daily politics. Metamorphoses occurred mainly in the social sense, not in the natural sense. The performers themselves transformed from impressive TV presenters into babes who drank straight from the bottle of champagne and burped shamelessly. However, trolling everything and everyone, they pointed to one important issue: that somewhere there is an understanding of “right”, be it nationality, sexual orientation or behavior. There are some “right” ways to do things. But who decides what is right? The constant insecurity, the flow from one state to another, the appearance of a different creature under the shell (or dress) were the images triggered this performance: a caterpillar and a butterfly, admirable and uplifting. Provocative and seductive, annoying, naive and smart at the same time.”
