Air Reservoir : a Dystopian Poem

At the visit to Air Reservoir, a sanctuary for aerial beings – lies a testament to our times. You are invited to put on the external lungs and depart in a a place where the air itself carries the weight of a slow catastrophe. This is a creeping loss, a gradual disappearance of respiratory beings. In this landscape powered by the possibilities of worlding explores the differences and similarities between the human breathing system and that of birds, insects, snails. A performative respiratory ecosystem is formed in the mutation of human made- remains and aerial beings. As you move through this space, you become a witness to delicate death dance of human intervention. There you encounter a more distributed lung structure with air sacs that has a function in maintaining a balanced flight for birds, who breathe two times faster and snails whose lungs stretch upwards into the depth of a shell. These dynamics of contrast are explored, while being challenged with the human-bodied limitations in perceiving air.

Author: Beate Poikāne
Performers: Sofija Putniņa and Kristers Krūms
Composer: Liza Kuzyakova
Voice: Linda Mence
Choreography consultant: Laima Jaunzema
Producer: Ieva Briede
Produced by New Theatre Institute of Latvia, Homo Novus festival Commissioned by Santa Remere and Bek Beger.

Duration 45 min (happens in the dark hours of the day) Location : concrete skatepark or open asphalted field

Language: In English and Latvian

Accessibility: It is possible to have Surdo sign language translator, we had it as a part of integrated dramaturgy of the piece. Original piece was accessible to people with mobility variability and it was accessible to wheelchair user with assistant. Accessibility can be specified depending on the selected location