Hotel Pro Forma’s Relief
Hotel Pro Forma is “a vehicle for dramatic composition at the boundary of theatre and exhibition.”
Hotel Pro Forma’s Relief debuted yesterday at Kaleidoskop. Relief runs until 22 May here in Copenhagen, then travels to Odessa and Varna. It’s based on the life of Vladimir Nabokov.
Assisting Hotel Pro Forma with the video animations this winter was a joy and a challenge, demanding me to be equal parts artist, technician, and magician.
However, having finally seen the finished piece in context, there is a certain theatrical charm in it that arises from exploring the relationship between the seen and the heard. All audience members experience the audio through headphones, and the lines between art and life, fiction and reality, are further blurred through the integration of real-time video footage from the streets.
Photo by Roberto Fortuna.
