Labyrinth Of The Other (LOTO) is loosely based on Severin Blake's lived experience and is an interdisciplinary reimagining of the classically greco-anglo, patriarchal, myth of the Minotaur. LOTO looks at the origins of the Minotaur, the sins of the father, the mother maligned, the architect nearly lost in his design, the monster, and the sister left behind to die. LOTO asks who we are beneath the mask of the monster? Who even gets to define what the word monster means? LOTO is a ritual container for personal and collective healing. It is a homecoming. It is a shedding of skin. It is a transformation, a call to go beyond the threshold of erasure, to rest, to learn and remember. To listen, to change, to rearrange, to move forward and create with intention.
LOTO engages emotions, intellect, and psyche through a layer cake of language. The languages of sound, symbolism, movement, and story. --In this immersive installation the audience serves as a second character, a scene partner and force all its own in conversation with our narrator. Severin invites the audience to witness and traverse the space. Audience members may choose to shape their journey from a list of seven intentions: spirituality, inwardness, creativity, simplicity, integration, intimacy, vibrancy. There are elemental undertones of water, fire, earth, mineral, nature, and silence allowing for a break from the rushing electric background hum of the world and giving space to hear one's inner voice. Together these weave a story to engage comfort, fear, compulsion, release, tenderness, gentleness, and flying in the face of uncertainty.
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