‘Elegy of Ergot’

Jette Loona Hermanis

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15. 11. 2021 / 6:30pm


22. 11. 2021 / 6:30pm



 

'Where the Sun Sets and Where It Rises' 
CHAPTER 13


curated by Edita Štrajtová & Linda Vondrová

Opening
15. 11. 2021  18:00/ 6pm
performance ‘Elegy of Ergot’:
15. 11. 2021 18:30 & 22. 11. 2021 18:30
jednadvatři gallery,
Petrohradská 13,
Praha 10

Otevírací doba / Opening hours
Po-Pá 15-20/ Mon-Fri 3-8PM
Text: Linda Vondrová
Visuals: Šimon Levitner (BCAA system)
Graphic design: Martin Czeller (Lobster)
Photographer: Iryna Drahun

Performance Collaborators
Soundscape: Gil Schneider
Heels of steel: Nele Kurvits
Costume pants: Karolina Janulevičiūtė
Sfx prosthetics: Martina Gofman

Elegy of Ergot is a solo performance, where the central motif lays in a fungal body, that affects the system both on a physical and mind-distorting measure. A love poem to a parasite, that enables the protagonist to access a delirious state, while simultaneously decomposing the flesh.

Staging ritualistic tasks, that intertwine the protagonist’s sense of submerging with nature, and the contrasting, being affiliated to the digital domain. She re-enacts symbolic gestures that deepen her connection with belonging to nature's force. Rather than performing paganistic actions, she seeks to unfurl the enchantment in a far more subjective matter. It ties with her connection to earth and nature, through which she can realize hidden truths, and embody empowerment of her femininity, sensitivity, intuitiveness and inner world of feelings. The elixir, which her actions end up transforming into, is the ultimate goal to reach her zenith of self. For her to reach this state, she is casted to unlock these riddles, through manipulating movement in time and space.


Jette Loona Hermanis, pulsing Baltic blood, is a performance artist and a choreographer, born in 1997, in Tallinn, Estonia. After finishing her studies in SNDO Choreography, Amsterdam, she has since been based in Tallinn and Riga. She received the Estonian Theatre Prize Dance Award 2022 with Johhan Rosenberg for their performance “Eden Detail”.
The "re-enchantment" of a progressively "disenchanted world” has been one of the overriding aspirations of her artistic inquiry. By reviving notions of individuation through archetypal complementariness she has been consistently appealed to a revaluation of the role of the marvellous and the transcendental. Her work is theatrical and romantically classical, yet stuck in a body of an avatar, expressing the aches of a mechanical machine, the pain of a digital golem, an emo Fairytale drenched in mythological symbolism, the frame – post-internet dark romanticism.




photo credit © Iryna Drahun


‘Where the Sun Sets and Where It Rises’ is a narrative exhibition saga in Jedna Dva Tři Gallery. The exhibition cycle is divided into 13 chapters and a prologue. Within this series, artworks of 24 artists will be showcased. The exhibitions are a creative dialogue between the exhibiting artists, who come and intervene in the installation and then leave as the story goes.

The 14th and final exhibition of the narrative exhibition cycle ‘Where the Sun Sets and Where It Rises’

Artists exhibiting within the series:
Barbora Volfová & Edita Štrajtová, Leevi Toija, Klara Jakes & Monika Kováčová & Chris Attila Izsák, Miriama Kardošová, Tomáš Roček & Iryna Zahladko, Klára Švandová & Ondřej Doskočil, Øleg & Kaška, Léa Tissot-Laura & Anna Sougy, Darina Alster &, Lena Luga, Dominika Dobiášová, Oliver Torr, Jennetta Petch & Szymon Kula, Eva Jaroňová, Victoria Oren, Bronson Smillie, Jette Loona Hermanis

Exhibition program Petrohradská kolektiv z.s. is supported in 2021 by the State Fund of Culture of the Czech Republic and the City of Prague.
‘Where the Sun Sets and Where It Rises’ je výpravná výstavní sága na pokračování. Letošní výstavní cyklus Jedna Dva Tři Gallery je rozdělen do 13 kapitol, ve kterých vystaví dohromady 24 umělců. Výstavy fungují jako tvůrčí dialog umělců, kteří přicházejí a zasahují do instalací, ze kterých pak zase odcházejí tak, jak se vyvíjí celý příběh.

Čtrnáctá a poslední výstava výpravného výstavního cyklu ‘Where the Sun Sets and Where It Rises’

Vystavující v rámci celého cyklu:
Barbora Volfová & Edita Štrajtová, Leevi Toija, Klara Jakes & Monika Kováčová & Chris Attila Izsák, Miriama Kardošová, Tomáš Roček & Iryna Zahladko, Klára Švandová & Ondřej Doskočil, Øleg & Kaška, Léa Tissot-Laura & Anna Sougy, Darina Alster & Lena Luga, Dominika Dobiášová, Anna-Marie Berdychová & Oliver Torr, Jennetta Petch & Szymon Kula, Eva Jaroňová, Victoria Oren, Bronson Smillie, Jette Loona Hermanis

Výstavní program Petrohradská kolektiv z.s. na rok 2021 byl podpořen Státním fondem kultury ČR a Magistrátem hlavního města Prahy