Homo Novus / Diorama

To ensure the safety of our audience, artists and team, the attendance of the festival in person will only be possible when presenting a Covid-19 certificate that proves the fact of vaccination or recovery from the illness within the past six months and an identity document. Therefore, unfortunately, the festival may only be attended by persons 12 and up this year.

If you have specific requirements to be able to access the venue, please email us at [email protected]. 

Bus to the perfomance from Riga centre (included in the ticket price): https://ej.uz/bus_to_diorama

Visual, non-verbal performance

Concept & choreography: Ingri Fiksdal

The word “diorama” often refers to a three-dimentional model of a landscape, such as displayed in museums of natural history. In the French diorama theatre, invented by Louis Daguerre in 1822, the audience were sat watching big landscape paintings transform through skillfully manipulated light, sound effects and live performers. In her performance series Diorama, contemporary Norwegian artist Ingri Fiksdal uses choreography as a special effect or lens to change the way we perceive the world. Her performances reflect on the passing of time, on the slow change in landscape, and scenography as an ecological practice of bodies both human and non-human. The music is composed by Norwegian musician Jenny Hval and noise artist Lasse Marhaug, and shifts from a drone-like echo, to a punctured, industrial noise, to indecipherable whispering voices drifting into the landscape.