Kaarina Ormio


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The Princess as the Sun

  Prince Betelgeuze, Princess Algieba and Princess Bellatrix
Travel Around the Baltic Sea


A performance project in co-operation with Jaan Pärnamäe (EST) and Elin T. Sørensen (NO) from 1997 to 2002 - .
The project started as travelling and visiting performances. We visited different places around the Baltic Sea, sometimes festivals, but often places where people were not waiting for us.
The 'performances' were more an effort to play seriously like children do, to LIVE as fairytale princesses and a fairytale prince, more than theatrical performances with a start and an end on an art scene.
First I was negative to documenting anything since it makes the play less serious, but with time we needed evidence for art institutions and to get some more responce. So we documented the visits with photo, text, 8 mm film, music... and have published them for example in installations and in a book.
For people who happened to see us, we hoped to create moments of recalling dreams of Something Else, that is beyond the politically correct and fashionable everyday, to remind them on something already forgotten, that might as well be a part of themselves.

"As the Princess in me expresses the longing for the Other, I am also seeking the other coast of the Baltic Sea, my home sea."            -   Jaan Pärnamäe




3 fairy tale royal persons

Laitosaari 1998

The narrow gauge railway in Latvia

The narrow gauge railway in Latvia

The narrow gauge railway in Latvia, Kalniena station

The narrow gauge railway in Latvia, Kalniena

The Livonian giant 2001

The Livonian giant 2001

Ire

Irē

Paide 2001

Paide 2001

Berlin 2000

Berlin 2000

Eckerö 1999

Eckerö 1999

River Shuja 1999

River Šuja 1999






Østersøen / The Baltic Sea
Iseendast / Om selvet




Suurin taide
Arvamus, lk 249 - 252;              (htm-versioon)