Olga Szymula (DK)
MON
Playing time
Monday April 27th 2022 19:30
About the performance
With film, animation, performance and experimental electronic music, Olga Szymula has created a work in the form of an intimate transition ritual inspired by Japanese culture and the novel The Woman in the Dunes by Kobo Abe. An incredible tale about a person who lives alone in a deep sand pit with the sole purpose of life to move sand – until the moment when the meaning of that life suddenly becomes uncertain. Fascinated and amazed by the narrative, Ola Szymula has constructed his own narrative with a rewriting of the novel, inviting the audience to an individual immersive experience filled with sound, image, presence and space.
About the composer
Composer Olga Szymula’s works have a range that extends over concerts, records, film music, audiovisual installations and for performances.
Szymula has created for the interdisciplinary composition “Mon”, the electro opera “Lapses” and sound installations and performances such as: ‘Dwellers’, ‘national song’ or ‘Contact’.
In addition to his solo projects, Szymula collaborates and plays with Toshimaru Nakamura, Marcin Dymiter (BAZA), Palle Højrup (artichoke colony) and Ylfa Þöll Ólafsdóttir. In addition, she works closely with the Svalhold Company and created scores for dance performances “Gravity”, “PRIMUS”, “Bang Bang-Collective Matters”.
Olga Szymula is based in Aarhus, Denmark.
Learn more about the composer here: olgaszymula.net