Post is a performance installation exploring the four-week journey of a shipping container from Asia to Europe, and the four-week period it usually takes to begin recovery from a traumatic shock. Through sound, text and a large-scale ultra-low resolution video, the piece examines the shipping of things as a performance of carrying meaning in a time of loss.
After a traumatic event, such as the sudden loss of a loved one, the body and mind can experience acute stress. This state typically lasts for up to four weeks and may involve feelings of anxiety, intense fear, and numbness. The process can feel slow, hopeless, and painful.
Similarly, the journey of a shipping container from Asia to Europe also takes approximately four weeks. Only around 5000 containerships transport the majority of newly produced goods worldwide. The journey is slow and routine, yet crucial for the global economy.
The work explores what occurs during these two four-week journeys - the mental and the physical. Both journeys are largely invisible to others besides the traveler. They only visibly manifest as byproducts: the ship’s waves, mood swings. The ordinariness of receiving an online order on your doorstep, the unnoticed global transit of the object. The mundaneness of waking up one day, no longer with the acute feeling of nausea. Gradually, invisibly, slowly, finding normalcy, perhaps even happiness, again. Arrived.
Duration: 25 minutes.
ARTISTIC TEAM
Artistic leader, video and text: Magnus Pind
Performer: tba
Scenographic objects: Zhihao
Scenography- and director’s assistant: Cecilie Sneding Rohde
Voice: Sigrid Stigsdatter
Producer (Godsbanen): Katrine Balle
Producer: Sigrid Aakvik, Art&About
Choreography and performance developed in collaboration with Deborah Aiyegbeni and Sarah Aviaja
Supported by: Danish Arts Foundation, Nordic Culture Fund, Aarhus Municipality, Godsbanen Aarhus.
Thank you: Niklas Grool, Erik Bjerre, Pernille Pind, Jon Skulberg, Lærke Erhard Huniche.
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