PRECIPICE OF DEPTH

The Precipice of Depth is a performance-video installation touching the matters of maternity or rather it's most straightforward, physical aspect, the labor itself, as well as childbirth anxiety, fears of the perinatal period, puerperium and baby blues. This domain of a woman's life, which still remains a taboo and which is willingly pushed to the margin of discussion on the topic of maternity being only the beautiful and momentous event, is for many women an extreme formative experience. In the Precipice of Depth we collide the opposites: the miracle of life, which is the conception, pregnancy and the emergence of a new being, with the "motherhood hell", physical pain, it's scatological and cruel literality and with mental sufferings of future and young mothers that are full of fear, uncertainty and loneliness. The creation of the spectacle was accompanied by conversations with several women of all ages, talking about their experience connected to the perinatal period and about their concerns and conditions associated with the eventuality of pregnancy in the future. The title of the spectacle refers to the psychoanalytic term known as "precipice of depth" signifying horrible, dark mood in which people tend to fall right after they make a step that has no way back.


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script, stage moving and direction: Marcin Herich

script co-operation, stage moving and acting: Monika Wachowicz

video: Marlena Niestrój and Marcin Herich

music: J.S. Bach and Ulver

duration of the performance: 40 minutes
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PRESENTATIONS

13 of June 2014 - Kinoteatr Rialto (Katowice) - Int. Performing Arts Festival A Part
(first night performance)
10 of June 2015 - Kinoteatr Rialto (Katowice) - Int. Performing Arts Festival A Part