Liminal Lab

Liminal Lab is a three chapters project which brings together musicians, performers and artists working with voice and sound to reflect about interconnected themes of Time, death and Body. The project addresses the subject of the current state of techno anxiety, geopolitical emergency and controversial relations with humankind and nature.

The laboratory took place in Kirkenes, Norway under the guidance of visual artist and filmmaker 1999Q. The thematic axis of the project is ‘Liminality’ – an ephemeral, timeless state where consciousness and the space around no longer belong to the previous setting, but has not yet had time to rebuild and adapt to the new reality. Mental, physical and social state are in the situation of uncertainty, ambivalence and blurred borders between reality and dream.

The Liminal Lab project offers a public discourse program that delves into the local context and engages with the global agenda. The project background revolves around three main pillars: Time, Death and Body. Together with lecturers we reflect about romanticisation and senselessness (or new norm) of discourse around nuclear culture. Through a performative lecture audience dived into control issues and collective traumas tied to displacement on a personal and societal level. And the third part of discourse programme is a radio performance about time and postmemory with echoes from the past and frightening present and future.

The project is generously supported by the Nordic Culture Fund

More information about project, programme and participants is here: liminalopera.com