PIMIÖ
Creation 2023
PREMIERE
20.04.2023
WHS Teatteri Union – Helsinki
PIMIÖ is a physical and visual research exploring the processes of analog photography executed live on the stage.
A collaboration between the visual / performing artist Luis Sartori do Vale, the photographer André Baumecker and the light designer Jere Mönkkönen, Pimiö is an investigation on the photography’s ability to evoke memories, and how the ‘truth’ can be forgotten in the act of remembering.
In Pimiö, the stage is transformed into a camera obscura and a photographic darkroom, interpolating experimental and traditional photographic printing techniques with movement, object manipulation and magic.
The images are composed, photographed, developed and shown live on stage, manipulating paper, chemistry and light. The artworks created during the process reveal a live documentation of the movements, actions & objects on stage, serving as a ‘time machine’, registering what risks getting lost into oblivion.
CREDITS
CONCEPT & PERFORMANCE
Luis Sartori do Vale
André Baumecker
Jere Mönkkönen
DIRECTION
Luis Sartori do Vale
LIGHT DESIGN
Jere Mönkkönen
MUSIC / SOUND DESIGN
Petteri Rajanti
ANALOG PHOTOGRAPHY CONSULTANCY
Brendan Barry
SPECIAL THANKS
Mira Ravald
Ville Walo
PRODUCTION
WHS
Portmanteau
SUPPORT
Arts Promotion Centre Finland
WHS Teatteri Union
CIRKO
Focus Nordic
“Artistically ambitious, stylish and well-polished piece of work that successfully combines different forms of art. Highly talented artists have created a piece that is appealing, warmhearted, innovative, charming and honest, and in which the stage work is skillful and even hypnotic at best. All the different elements, including music and light design, come together in a balanced performance that requires input from every member of the working group.”
Sirkuksen Lumo 2018 Prize – 11.3.2019
“An experience worth seeing and experiencing.
Portmanteau is a skilled and beautiful poetic abstract presentation.”
Annikki Alku / Demokraatti – 19.09.2018
“On se retrouve au croisement du cirque et des arts visuels et c’est juste magnifique pour les yeux. (…)
Ce joli ballet parfaitement orchestré ne serait pas pareil sans la contrebasse de Antonio Alemanno
qui ajoute cette tension et ce suspense auprès des spectateurs fascinés par la beauté de cette performance
durant laquelle on sent une grande complicité entre Luis et Mira.”
Branchés Culture – ManuGo
“The audience gets to share the authors imagination, childish strive for experiment
and playfulness which rely on strong skills of circus art.(…)
Wow-effects are offered by the couple’s charming dance duet,
Mira Ravald’s latin technique on the wire and Luis Sartori do Vale’s ball juggling.”
Eeva Kauppinen / Kaleva – 4.2.2018
“Overhead projectors have never been used for such a beautiful cause.”
Anssi Tapio / Kittilälehti – 14.6.2017
“In Portmanteau pure handicraft combines with clear ideas and thought-through technique.
An optical effect where the performers lose their contours and transform as into liquid in the sidelight gets one to gasp.
A magnificent science fantasy and optical illusion.”
Eeva Kauppinen / Kaleva – 4.2.2018
