Livsmedlet: Invisible Lands

10.2.2024, Villa Rana, Jyväskylä I

Across the desert, behind our back. Up the mountain, down our spine. Over the sea, just under our nose. On the day the war broke out, we left home.

Geography and politics are physically extended and transformed into organic performance platforms – our bodies – and we learn what touch, presence, and endurance really are about. With Invisible Lands, the visual theatre duo Livsmedlet challenges themselves in a unique meeting between puppetry and choreography.

The performers take turns to bare their flesh as the figures line up for their perilous journey. Falke’s back becomes their escape route from a smoking village; Lindgren’s stomach, painted blue, is the sea to Europe; knees turn into hill tops, feet form the rendezvous for a bus. The pulses of the performers breathe life into the models as they queue at border crossings, flee helicopters and crowd on to boats. It’s masterfully done, the combination of physical effort and contrasting scale making the wordless tale devastatingly sad. – The Guardian, 8.2.2019

Invisible Lands has premiered 2015 and has been since then performing in Finland, Estonia, Poland, France, Sweden, Slovenia, Germany, Norway, Russia, Scotland, Belgium, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Denmark, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Czech Republic, Croatia, Macedonia, Lithuania, Canada and the U.S.A.
 
Invisible Lands won the Festival’s Director’s prize in the Banialuka festival in Poland 2018, and a prize for “Intimate artistic grasp of current theme” in Spectaculo Interesse festival in Czech Republic, 2019.

Performances

At the Seminaarinmäen nukketeatterifestivaali 10.2.2024. at16 & 20.30 Villa Rana (Seminaarinkatu 13) Jyväskylä, FI

Concept, direction and performance: Ishmael Falke and Sandrina Lindgren Sound and Music: Niklas Nybom Light design: Jarkko Forsman   Age recommendation: 13+

Photo: Pernilla Lindgren
Photo: Pernilla Lindgren