A Host of Possible Dramas and Exchanges



Tobias Sejersdahl: Becoming Glass (2022)

Jessie Marino: A Host of Possible Dramas and Exchanges (2023) world premiere

The work by Jessie Marino was commissioned by MINU Festival and Andreas Borregaard with support from Augustinus Fonden.

Performed by Andreas Borregaard [accordeon].

︎︎︎ Huset-KBH, Xenon [Rådhusstræde 13]
︎︎︎ 15.11.2023 22.00-23.00
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MINU 2023 has only one kind of ticket available: a festival ticket that gives access to all 10 concerts at the festival priced at 150 kr.

It’s important for us to present events that are accessible to everyone regardless of financial means. We want to encourage audiences to visit multiple events, therefore access to all concerts on the festival is included when you purchase a ticket.

Becoming Glass is a Let’s Play of a text-based Choose Your Own Adventure game evolving around a quest of going from flesh to glass.

Narrator:

There’s just silence surrounding you, an uncoloured, primordial silence. If you didn’t know better, it might make you feel:

Dullness
Anguish
Sorrow
Dislike
Vexation of spirit
Vacation of spirit
Sickness
Etc.

But you’re not one to feel any of those, are you, Renée, destroyer of worlds, bringer of doom? YES OR NO?
Renée, destroyer of worlds, bringer of doom:
NO

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A Host of Possible Dramas and Exchanges is an exercise in automatic writing, a response to how thought feels as it rattles around inside the skull, extruding its way through a filter of language and penmanship. An assemblage of events, true and imagined, in a slurry of semi-autobiographical extensions. Somewhere inside the lines of fabrication are semblances of

T-R-U-T-H (as opposed to) pure fiction.

This episode of A Host of Possible Dramas and Exchanges : “The Lamb of Tartary” is a film and simultaneous performance, written for Andreas Borregaard, which focus it’s lens on the writings of Athanasius Kircher, a jesuit scholar and polymath who pontificated, drew extensive illustrations and bravely, formidably, got things wrong throughout most of the 17th century. He’s the type who lowers himself down tenderly into a sputtering, churning volcano - to collect data. You know the type.