lecture performance
red cape, blond wig, leather vest, white shirt, metal belt, tight pants, spoken word with snippets from the film "Last Relic"
25 minutes
2025

Documentation from the performance character and the performance lecture itself, BAL Conference 2025, University of Applied Arts Vienna, Austria © Pille-Riin Jaik and BAL Conference

CONCEPT

Can a symbol of freedom like a horse run in the Baltic swamps? What lungs would it need to survive a geopolitical hypoxia to keep its voice? In a closer look at the cult film “The Last Relic” (1969, Estonia) and a 4km trench in the bog of Pääsküla close to Tallinn, similarities start to appear. In overlapping storytelling, the sites of memory and land become echoes of each other, touching upon geopolitical realities of the Baltic present and pasts, where different military land enclosures and compromises on the living conditions keep clouding the region. A lecture performance of a research in process.

THE WHOLE LECTURE-PERFORMANCE

Invitation to the conference. © BAL Conference