The Missing Parts of a Whole

Written, directed and performed by Ingeborg Zackariassen

Weaving movement, time and fiction.

Inside a small cinema room in Gathenhielmska Huset, the audience members are entering, and are sitting down on red cinema chairs along three sides of the room.

On the fourth wall, there is a woman sitting on a chair by a desk, dimly illuminated by a lamp. Her face is obscured. On the desk there is a stack of papers and a glass filled with pens, as well as a laptop computer. Slowly, she starts reading you her manuscript, The missing parts of a Whole…

Written, directed and performed by Ingeborg Zackariassen

Curation and sound: Erik Dahl and Donovan von Martens.

Festival Obsidian, Gathenhielmska Huset 2023

Take this bundle of flesh and thoughts and drag it from place to place for any amount of time.

Think of the things you keep reminding yourself to do.

Turn on the light. Turn off the light.

Shed your skin once in a while.

Sit up straight. Or don’t.

Write.Read. Dance.

Repeat things.

Whatever you do, do it all the time.

Repeat some mistakes but do it with more joy.

Try to imagine Sisyphus happy.

Roll the stone up that hill again.

This time with more joy.

Feel like an outsider and let it empower you.

Find belonging somewhere, even if it’s just with yourself in a moment on a good day.

Remember that you are always in transformation,

Remind yourself to give yourself less reminders.

Have a day where things flow.

Find a bottle with a note at the bottom of it, a letter from yourself from many years ago.

Break a bottle to get to a note.

Let light illuminate you when it shines into your room.

Read a note.

Find some sense of meaning and let it slip away.

Feel love.