Maria Novella
Hobo's creatives Jamie Harper and Elien Hanselaer are collaborating on a brand new project.
Maria wants to talk about herself. She shows us her world of pregnancy yoga and an imaginary work addiction with fearless frankness. Does she say the truth? Or is it a reality that she makes up?
“Does it matter?”
The scene accompanying the song Hold Up of Beyoncé is strikingly similar to a video-installation by Pipilotti Rist called Ever is Over All (1997). The connection between these two scenes has been made before but we got fascinated by the differences between the two. The decisions of the changes made to Ever is Over All by Beyoncé’s team tell us something about the image of women changes (in this case influenced by popular media) through the years. In a similar way we look a one of the biggest female archetypes of the West: the Virgin Mary. Has it ever occurred to you in what way the depiction of the Virgin Mary has changed over time? Mary, once the incarnation of creation, potential and life itself has become interpreted as a symbol of purity and innocence.
Our new project is an exercise in indiscretion, with a shameless display of the back-side of the patriarchy. Where are the female aspects of our society? Where has our community life gone? How much can a person can bear in an increasingly individualistic and virtual society?
In a culture whose already classical dilemma is het hypertrophy of the intellect at the expense of energy and sensual capability, Western theatre today is shaped by intellectual paradigms such as semiotics, deconstruction, and post-structuralism instead of the emotional language of empathy, connection and coming together it so desperately needs. This project is a research inspired by the female principles of empathy, connection, ritual and the dream to develop a dialogical, trans-individual theatre that reflects the many dimensions of our humanity and potential back to us.
Maria wants to talk about herself. She shows us her world of pregnancy yoga and an imaginary work addiction with fearless frankness. Does she say the truth? Or is it a reality that she makes up?
“Does it matter?”
The scene accompanying the song Hold Up of Beyoncé is strikingly similar to a video-installation by Pipilotti Rist called Ever is Over All (1997). The connection between these two scenes has been made before but we got fascinated by the differences between the two. The decisions of the changes made to Ever is Over All by Beyoncé’s team tell us something about the image of women changes (in this case influenced by popular media) through the years. In a similar way we look a one of the biggest female archetypes of the West: the Virgin Mary. Has it ever occurred to you in what way the depiction of the Virgin Mary has changed over time? Mary, once the incarnation of creation, potential and life itself has become interpreted as a symbol of purity and innocence.
Our new project is an exercise in indiscretion, with a shameless display of the back-side of the patriarchy. Where are the female aspects of our society? Where has our community life gone? How much can a person can bear in an increasingly individualistic and virtual society?
In a culture whose already classical dilemma is het hypertrophy of the intellect at the expense of energy and sensual capability, Western theatre today is shaped by intellectual paradigms such as semiotics, deconstruction, and post-structuralism instead of the emotional language of empathy, connection and coming together it so desperately needs. This project is a research inspired by the female principles of empathy, connection, ritual and the dream to develop a dialogical, trans-individual theatre that reflects the many dimensions of our humanity and potential back to us.
