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Me When I Listen
For Me When I Listen by Lora Siebenhaar. Atalante, Gothenburg, Sweden.
Me When I Listen is a multimedia performance by Lora Siebenhaar that combines sonic, visual and live elements to explore growing up online as a fractured, hyper-mediated self.
For the scenography, I created a dreamscape around an imagined childhood bedroom. A long piece of fabric evokes the continuous scroll: while occupying little physical space, it accompanies the performer’s account of growing up online and suggests the internet’s endlessness.
Secondhand cotton doilies and whitework embroideries meet crinkled organza, bringing old and new together around the performer, in the present moment. Dark, romantic, and childlike elements exist alongside exposed theatre lights and scaffolding, leaving the dreamscape deliberately unfinished.
Minimal and rough, yet immersive and romantic, the space offers a glimpse of coming of age and of the self as something one can keep digging into.
