A monastery in the dunes falls into the ocean and its nuns moves into deserted welfare institutions around the region. People who want to stay living in the outskirts, far away from the remaining centralised hospital, now begin to inscribe them selves with the nuns.
Limited tickets for the 8th, 9th or 11th of October available at Limfjordsteatret box office: https://limfjordsteatret.dk/events/syner-vakt-i-stoev/
Audience become part of this performance-scenario, by coming to receive a poetic consultation with us. It takes place at in a "nursing lab", a small rehearsal ward in the Nursing School in Thy.
Concept: Inga Gerner Nielsen. Performance and visual art: Ann Mai Røge, Tyra Wigg, Rikke Steen Mapstone, Olivia Kamradt, Stisa Søgaard, Inga Gerner Nielsen. Choreography: Tyra Wigg. Textile Pieces: Stephanie Becquet. Sound: Nils Bourdon. Consultant in Interactive Dramaturgy: Louisa Yaa Aisin. Consultant from the Nursing School: Helle Kronborg Krogsgaard.
Photo and video stills by Claire Chavalley
'Syner Vakt i Støv' is supported by Region Nord and Statens Kunstfond.
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The performance is part of 'In the Mirror of Care Work', a long-term project in collaboration with the Nursing School of UCN in Hjørring and Thisted. Since 2020 we have been exploring different formates for giving insight into our different yet, in many ways, similar field of relational work.
With 'Syner Vakt i Støv' we return to the figure of the nun as a melting point between our two professions. For the nursing students, abbess Hildegard von Bingen is introduced to them, when Helle Kronborg Krogsgaard teaches her first lesson of the History of Nursing. For us in the performance and contemporary art field, Hildegard's monastery archive gives access to a pre-industrial knowledge of herbs, body, spirit and rituals many of us wish to reintroduce into Western societies.
For both nurses and performers the nun may present itself as an ambivalent figure. It opens questions of how we feel about the notion of a calling to care work?
In the performance of 'Syner Vakt i Støv' our working question with the nursing students is what do we want to bring from the fallen monastery?
Read more about the performance, in Tyra Wiggs essayistic reflections from when we first made it in Hjørring 2022: https://pw-magazine.com/2023/more-than-bare-life
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