Netti Nüganen "The Myth: last day"

Austrian Premiere

Fri 19. & Sat 20.01., 19.30h 

Rumour has it that the layers underneath the ground have preserved friction energy from sociologic changes and collective reconfigurations over centuries. The earth’s crust has stored geological activities, memories and marches generating magnetic heat and making it possible in ideal circumstances to defeat the decomposition of flesh.How long has she been there, defying decomposition? Nobody knows. The layers are getting thicker as she crawls and crawls and crawls and crawls. Up, towards the sunlight that pierces through the open cracks and her lengthy fingernails are clawing through the soil. She is boiling, roasting, red-hot fuming. The cold, fresh air too unbearable to be inhaled, the light too bright to be absorbed—so she vents. Completely chaotic, headless, spineless. She needs a form - any distinct style – to clasp onto. So, she could tend to some temporary business – and then be gone again, forever.

"The Myth: last day" is centred around a prefabricated archaeological mine, where a pseudo-archaeologist digs objects from the ground. It intertwines reality and fiction and creates myths, thereby constructing speculative pasts and futures. The show’s second part is a black-metal-inspired doomsday concert, where the researcher becomes a chaotic punk-metalhead. It animates the ruins, explores reasons to project towards the future and stay on the surface.

"The Myth: last day" won the prize for the best Estonian performing arts production in 2022.