The heroine is treading the line between a professional artist and an amateur human being, caught up in the struggle for success and recognition in the highly competitive art world, climbing to the top until she collapses… to face the necessity to forge a new feminine way of being in the world. The human condition is the main subject matter of this work, addressing the concepts of the ego and the self.

The performance was originally conceived under the title In Her Room in Vienna during the 3rd Living Room biennale in November 2011. The work has been performed in Vienna, London, Berlin, and Amsterdam, whose edition was later turned into a movie. A shorter version of this work, La Liberta, was created into a baroque opera and performed in W139 gallery in Amsterdam in 2012. The work further evolved into a performance Emergency Exit Now-Here, premiered at OT 301 in 2012.

Inga Cholmogorova is an Amsterdam-based nomadic conceptual/visual and performance artist working worldwide. She mostly creates site-specific installations and live performances in situ. Inga has graduated from Fine Arts at the prestigious conceptual art school Rietveld Academy, and since then, she has been practicing martial arts, sumi-e, and butoh dance with various masters around Europe and in Japan. Sakurako is her butoh stage name. In her works, she analyses the fragile nature of human relations, exposing the roles we play daily. Cholmogorova creates presence-based works as an invitation to slow down, alter one’s perception, and experience the here and the now. More: www.cholmogorova.com

Concept: Inga Cholmogorova; butoh dance: Sakurako; sound: Phil Von (Von Magnet)

Price for both events of the day in Menza pri koritu: 6 €, 4 € (students upon submission of an identity card, pensioners, persons with disabilities, unemployed and self-employed in culture).

Producent by: City of Women.
Organisation: Red Dawns.
In collaboration with: Menza pri koritu.
Supported by: Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency.