In Baroque theater, the stagehands were often sailors who operated the stage machinery as if navigating a sailing ship. In the gallery version of the performance "Bad Weather" - "Navigations" - baroque machines of rain, wind and thunder, moving in a large empty space, follow the paths of tropical cyclones and leave traces of plant seeds carried over the ocean. Observed from an ever-changing perspective, ancient climate phenomena become a multifaceted experience, a ritual to be admired.
in 2019 the author of the work, Arturas Bumštein, was awarded the Boris Dauguvietis earring for his innovative and original steps in the theater (integration of sound experiments into new forms of theater - in the performances "Bad Weather" and "Olympian Machine"). In the same year, the vinyl record "Bad Weather Long Play" was released. in 2020 "Navigations" was awarded the international Carapelli for Art prize, the founder of which is Carapelli Firenze S.p.A.
NAVIGATIONS (from the BAD WEATHER series) | Baroque theater machine performance Sessions
