A! - LiLi Re - I WILL NEVER BE THE SAME AGAIN

I WILL NEVER BE THE SAME AGAIN is a site-responsive, multidisciplinary performance by the artist collective LiLi Re.

What do we allow ourselves to grieve – and how do we grieve in Western society today?

LiLi Re invites you to a performative act of mourning, exploring our emotional relationship to people, places, and the non-human world. The performance combines an intimate voiceover, sound, textile installations and physical and vocal expression, inspired by the ancient practice of lamentation – a collective and embodied language of grief.

By bringing grief into the public space and into the collective experience, I WILL NEVER BE THE SAME AGAIN seeks to create new forms of connection and reflection, weaving together the relationship between grief, care, and place.

The first performative action of this project took place in July 2024 at Engabreen, a glacier arm of Svartisen, with a site-specific walk and a living funeral for the melting ice LiLi Re now has the pleasure of inviting audiences to I WILL NEVER BE THE SAME AGAIN, now adapted for the town Akureyri.

The performance begins with an outdoor walk.

Please dress appropriately for the weather.

The performance starts and ends at Akureyri Art Museum.

Recommended for age 16 and up

Duration: ca 120 min.

Artistic team / Listrænt teymi:

Idea & concept / Hugmynd og hugmyndafræði: LiLi Re

Text / Texti: Petra Casale, Christine Ryndak, Silje Lindberg

Visual elements / Sjónræn útfærsla: Nikolai Lieblein Røsæg and Mio Oribe Stuberg Ueno

Musician & composer / Tónlistarmaður og tónskáld: Stina Stjern

Co-creating performers / Meðflytjendur: Linde Hanna Rongen, Júlía Kolbrún, Petra Casale, Christine Ryndak and Silje Lindberg.

Choir / Kór: Hymnodia chamber choir

Producer / Framleiðandi: LiLi Re

Supported by / Sutt af: Norwegian Art Council, A! Gjörningahátíð / A! Performance Festival

Thanks to the European platform INSITU.