Vanasay Khamphommala is a French-Lao dramaturg and performer who trained as a musician (but found it too difficult) and an academic (but found it too competitive). In 2017, they founded Lapsus chevelü and presented their first performance L’Invocation à la muse with performer and dominatrix Caritia Abell at the Festival d’Avignon in 2018.
Lapsus chevelü develops a series of performances exploring European myths from a trans* and postcolonial perspective: Venus and Adonis (2015), Orphée aphone (2019), Le Bain de Diane (2020), and Écho (2022). Vanasay also works as a dramaturg and translates William Shakespeare, Howard Barker and Anne Carson for productions and publications. Vanasay is part of the artistic board of for the NORDWIND Festival 2021 and as a performer.
TIMING:
15:00 – 17:00: My Undying Love/Songs of Grief – HIMHERANDIT/LAPSUS CHEVELU
17:00 – 19:00: My Undying Love/Songs of Grief – HIMHERANDIT/LAPSUS CHEVELU
20:00 – 22:00: My Undying Love/Songs of Grief – HIMHERANDIT/LAPSUS CHEVELU
22:00 – 00:00: My Undying Love/Songs of Grief – HIMHERANDIT/LAPSUS CHEVELU
In December 2021 the performer Andreas Constantinou and Vanasay Khamphommala got to know each other during the NORDWIND Festival in Hamburg and out of a broad respect and interest in each other’s work the wish occured to work together at some point in their career. Introducing with „ Soft Utopia“ last year’s programmatic focus, NORDWIND opened up to long-term, transdisciplinary and participatory processes establishing artist collaborations as sustainable exchange. The project my undying love//songs of grief is a first cooperation between ANDREAS CONSTANTINOU the team of HIMHERANDIT and VANASAY KHAMPHOMMALA/LAPSUS CHEVELU
My Undying Love/ Songs of Grief – HIMHERANDIT/LAPSUS CHEVELU
Andreas Constantinou, Vanasay Khamphommala, Dagmara Bilon, Kenth Rose
Beautiful and intimate My Undying Love is an award-winning immersive performance, an honest response to grief, a love letter to humanity.
In My Undying Love, five persons at a time enter into a custom-built installation and become immersed between melodic soundscapes, an ambient 360° video panorama and an engaged in an hour long interactive performance experience. Audience become both on-lookers and participants.
My Undying Love combines performance, visual art, story telling, video installation and sonic art into a unique immersive experience that talks about death, grief, life and love.
SONGS OF GRIEF offers a space for the audience to prepare and/or prolong their experience of MY UNDYING LOVE, in which silence, breath, voice and music come together to question the place of sounds in our grieving processes. It is a place of (after)care where ephemeral, ever-changing and participative soundscapes are created.
TIMING:
10:00 – 13:30: Workshop: Sounds of Grief
What does grieving do to our breaths ? to our voices ? More often than not, grieving is about letting go of something that is stuck in our throat. In this workshop, which reflects the creative process of their performance SONGS OF GRIEF, Vanasay Khamphommala explores with the participants ways of turning through breath and voice the silence of grieving into audible emotions.
TIMING:
15:00 – 17:00: My Undying Love/Songs of Grief – HIMHERANDIT/LAPSUS CHEVELU
17:00 – 19:00: My Undying Love/Songs of Grief – HIMHERANDIT/LAPSUS CHEVELU
20:00 – 22:00: My Undying Love/Songs of Grief – HIMHERANDIT/LAPSUS CHEVELU
22:00 – 00:00: My Undying Love/Songs of Grief – HIMHERANDIT/LAPSUS CHEVELU
In December 2021 the performer Andreas Constantinou and Vanasay Khamphommala got to know each other during the NORDWIND Festival in Hamburg and out of a broad respect and interest in each other’s work the wish occured to work together at some point in their career. Introducing with „ Soft Utopia“ last year’s programmatic focus, NORDWIND opened up to long-term, transdisciplinary and participatory processes establishing artist collaborations as sustainable exchange. The project my undying love//songs of grief is a first cooperation between ANDREAS CONSTANTINOU the team of HIMHERANDIT and VANASAY KHAMPHOMMALA/LAPSUS CHEVELU
My Undying Love/ Songs of Grief – HIMHERANDIT/LAPSUS CHEVELU
Andreas Constantinou, Vanasay Khamphommala, Dagmara Bilon, Kenth Rose
Beautiful and intimate My Undying Love is an award-winning immersive performance, an honest response to grief, a love letter to humanity.
In My Undying Love, five persons at a time enter into a custom-built installation and become immersed between melodic soundscapes, an ambient 360° video panorama and an engaged in an hour long interactive performance experience. Audience become both on-lookers and participants.
My Undying Love combines performance, visual art, story telling, video installation and sonic art into a unique immersive experience that talks about death, grief, life and love.
SONGS OF GRIEF offers a space for the audience to prepare and/or prolong their experience of MY UNDYING LOVE, in which silence, breath, voice and music come together to question the place of sounds in our grieving processes. It is a place of (after)care where ephemeral, ever-changing and participative soundscapes are created.
TIMING:
15:00 – 17:00: My Undying Love/Songs of Grief – HIMHERANDIT/LAPSUS CHEVELU
17:00 – 19:00: My Undying Love/Songs of Grief – HIMHERANDIT/LAPSUS CHEVELU
20:00 – 22:00: My Undying Love/Songs of Grief – HIMHERANDIT/LAPSUS CHEVELU
22:00 – 00:00: My Undying Love/Songs of Grief – HIMHERANDIT/LAPSUS CHEVELU
In December 2021 the performer Andreas Constantinou and Vanasay Khamphommala got to know each other during the NORDWIND Festival in Hamburg and out of a broad respect and interest in each other’s work the wish occured to work together at some point in their career. Introducing with „ Soft Utopia“ last year’s programmatic focus, NORDWIND opened up to long-term, transdisciplinary and participatory processes establishing artist collaborations as sustainable exchange. The project my undying love//songs of grief is a first cooperation between ANDREAS CONSTANTINOU the team of HIMHERANDIT and VANASAY KHAMPHOMMALA/LAPSUS CHEVELU
My Undying Love/ Songs of Grief – HIMHERANDIT/LAPSUS CHEVELU
Andreas Constantinou, Vanasay Khamphommala, Dagmara Bilon, Kenth Rose
Beautiful and intimate My Undying Love is an award-winning immersive performance, an honest response to grief, a love letter to humanity.
In My Undying Love, five persons at a time enter into a custom-built installation and become immersed between melodic soundscapes, an ambient 360° video panorama and an engaged in an hour long interactive performance experience. Audience become both on-lookers and participants.
My Undying Love combines performance, visual art, story telling, video installation and sonic art into a unique immersive experience that talks about death, grief, life and love.
SONGS OF GRIEF offers a space for the audience to prepare and/or prolong their experience of MY UNDYING LOVE, in which silence, breath, voice and music come together to question the place of sounds in our grieving processes. It is a place of (after)care where ephemeral, ever-changing and participative soundscapes are created.
TIMING:
15:00 – 17:00: My Undying Love/Songs of Grief – HIMHERANDIT/LAPSUS CHEVELU
17:00 – 19:00: My Undying Love/Songs of Grief – HIMHERANDIT/LAPSUS CHEVELU
20:00 – 22:00: My Undying Love/Songs of Grief – HIMHERANDIT/LAPSUS CHEVELU
22:00 – 00:00: My Undying Love/Songs of Grief – HIMHERANDIT/LAPSUS CHEVELU
In December 2021 the performer Andreas Constantinou and Vanasay Khamphommala got to know each other during the NORDWIND Festival in Hamburg and out of a broad respect and interest in each other’s work the wish occured to work together at some point in their career. Introducing with „ Soft Utopia“ last year’s programmatic focus, NORDWIND opened up to long-term, transdisciplinary and participatory processes establishing artist collaborations as sustainable exchange. The project my undying love//songs of grief is a first cooperation between ANDREAS CONSTANTINOU the team of HIMHERANDIT and VANASAY KHAMPHOMMALA/LAPSUS CHEVELU
My Undying Love/ Songs of Grief – HIMHERANDIT/LAPSUS CHEVELU
Andreas Constantinou, Vanasay Khamphommala, Dagmara Bilon, Kenth Rose
Beautiful and intimate My Undying Love is an award-winning immersive performance, an honest response to grief, a love letter to humanity.
In My Undying Love, five persons at a time enter into a custom-built installation and become immersed between melodic soundscapes, an ambient 360° video panorama and an engaged in an hour long interactive performance experience. Audience become both on-lookers and participants.
My Undying Love combines performance, visual art, story telling, video installation and sonic art into a unique immersive experience that talks about death, grief, life and love.
SONGS OF GRIEF offers a space for the audience to prepare and/or prolong their experience of MY UNDYING LOVE, in which silence, breath, voice and music come together to question the place of sounds in our grieving processes. It is a place of (after)care where ephemeral, ever-changing and participative soundscapes are created.
TIMING:
14:00 – 16:00: My Undying Love/Songs of Grief – HIMHERANDIT/LAPSUS CHEVELU
16:00 – 18:00: My Undying Love/Songs of Grief – HIMHERANDIT/LAPSUS CHEVELU
19:00 – 21:00: My Undying Love/Songs of Grief – HIMHERANDIT/LAPSUS CHEVELU
21:00 – 23:00: My Undying Love/Songs of Grief – HIMHERANDIT/LAPSUS CHEVELU
In December 2021 the performer Andreas Constantinou and Vanasay Khamphommala got to know each other during the NORDWIND Festival in Hamburg and out of a broad respect and interest in each other’s work the wish occured to work together at some point in their career. Introducing with „ Soft Utopia“ last year’s programmatic focus, NORDWIND opened up to long-term, transdisciplinary and participatory processes establishing artist collaborations as sustainable exchange. The project my undying love//songs of grief is a first cooperation between ANDREAS CONSTANTINOU the team of HIMHERANDIT and VANASAY KHAMPHOMMALA/LAPSUS CHEVELU
My Undying Love/ Songs of Grief – HIMHERANDIT/LAPSUS CHEVELU
Andreas Constantinou, Vanasay Khamphommala, Dagmara Bilon, Kenth Rose
Beautiful and intimate My Undying Love is an award-winning immersive performance, an honest response to grief, a love letter to humanity.
In My Undying Love, five persons at a time enter into a custom-built installation and become immersed between melodic soundscapes, an ambient 360° video panorama and an engaged in an hour long interactive performance experience. Audience become both on-lookers and participants.
My Undying Love combines performance, visual art, story telling, video installation and sonic art into a unique immersive experience that talks about death, grief, life and love.
SONGS OF GRIEF offers a space for the audience to prepare and/or prolong their experience of MY UNDYING LOVE, in which silence, breath, voice and music come together to question the place of sounds in our grieving processes. It is a place of (after)care where ephemeral, ever-changing and participative soundscapes are created.
TIMING:
14:00 – 16:00: My Undying Love/Songs of Grief – HIMHERANDIT/LAPSUS CHEVELU
16:00 – 18:00: My Undying Love/Songs of Grief – HIMHERANDIT/LAPSUS CHEVELU
19:00 – 21:00: My Undying Love/Songs of Grief – HIMHERANDIT/LAPSUS CHEVELU
21:00 – 23:00: My Undying Love/Songs of Grief – HIMHERANDIT/LAPSUS CHEVELU
In December 2021 the performer Andreas Constantinou and Vanasay Khamphommala got to know each other during the NORDWIND Festival in Hamburg and out of a broad respect and interest in each other’s work the wish occured to work together at some point in their career. Introducing with „ Soft Utopia“ last year’s programmatic focus, NORDWIND opened up to long-term, transdisciplinary and participatory processes establishing artist collaborations as sustainable exchange. The project my undying love//songs of grief is a first cooperation between ANDREAS CONSTANTINOU the team of HIMHERANDIT and VANASAY KHAMPHOMMALA/LAPSUS CHEVELU
My Undying Love/ Songs of Grief – HIMHERANDIT/LAPSUS CHEVELU
Andreas Constantinou, Vanasay Khamphommala, Dagmara Bilon, Kenth Rose
Beautiful and intimate My Undying Love is an award-winning immersive performance, an honest response to grief, a love letter to humanity.
In My Undying Love, five persons at a time enter into a custom-built installation and become immersed between melodic soundscapes, an ambient 360° video panorama and an engaged in an hour long interactive performance experience. Audience become both on-lookers and participants.
My Undying Love combines performance, visual art, story telling, video installation and sonic art into a unique immersive experience that talks about death, grief, life and love.
SONGS OF GRIEF offers a space for the audience to prepare and/or prolong their experience of MY UNDYING LOVE, in which silence, breath, voice and music come together to question the place of sounds in our grieving processes. It is a place of (after)care where ephemeral, ever-changing and participative soundscapes are created.