Hasta luego
Zatím
See you
I said many times goodbye to the sea.
I don’t belong here. But I don’t belong there.
I am where you are. You are everywhere, but nowhere. Not here. Not now.
anytime, anywhere is a multilingual piece about two young women from different continents, who openly
share their experiences and emotions about missing people in their lives. Navigating through departures,
in-betweens, split identities and a shared reality, autobiographical materials are intertwined with
abstraction, which arrives on the scene through multidisciplinary media.
Credit:
Creative team: Kristina Kellnerová, Jovita Siu Ji Chin
Estimated duration: 50 min
Performance in Czech, English, Cantonese and Spanish with English subtitles
Premiere October 2023, Prague Czech Republic
Creative team: Kristina Kellnerová, Jovita Siu Ji Chin
Estimated duration: 50 min
Performance in Czech, English, Cantonese and Spanish with English subtitles
Premiere October 2023, Prague Czech Republic
Autobiographical | Multidisciplinary | Devising
anytime, anywhere is a multilingual performance that unfolds as a live exchange between two women living far from their homelands. Speaking from different continents and cultural contexts, they share fragments of personal memories, farewells, and the ongoing experience of missing people who are no longer physically present in their lives.
The performance moves through states of departure, distance, and in-between-ness. Autobiographical materials form the backbone of the work, but they are not presented as a linear confession. Instead, memories surface through movement, voice, objects, live video, and sound, drifting between the concrete and the abstract. The audience is guided from recognisable geographies, such as Prague, Hong Kong, Spain, and Central America, into inner landscapes shaped by longing, absence, and imagination.
To translate their inner pathways between memories, emotions and present reality into a performance, both creators bring to the table their performative languages. Movement and narrative on one side, live audio-visual composition on the other. Videos and sounds are streamed and manipulated in real time, projected onto surfaces of varying textures and materials. This live mediation exposes the creative process, whilst aiding the performers in moulding the space according to their needs. As this is happening, and the inner worlds of the performers transform the stage, a dreamlike atmosphere is born and cared for.
Objects, physical scores, spoken text, sound, and projected imagery coexist without hierarchy. As projections and headlights are the only sources of light for this performance, special attention is placed on how elements appear and disappear on stage. This way, the stage becomes a playground for light to dialogue with its projected image, for objects to measure against a living body, for memories of both performers to mesh together, and for meaning to appear and dissolve in relation to the audience’s own experiences.
Rather than illustrating stories, the performance invites the audience to inhabit a shared emotional journey where personal histories resonate as collective experience.
Living with separation, chosen or imposed, has become a common condition now. Through anytime, anywhere, Jovita and Kristina share their own processes of navigating absence, distance, and care across borders. The work does not seek resolution, but offers a space of recognition: a reminder that the experience of missing someone is not carried alone.
The performance moves through states of departure, distance, and in-between-ness. Autobiographical materials form the backbone of the work, but they are not presented as a linear confession. Instead, memories surface through movement, voice, objects, live video, and sound, drifting between the concrete and the abstract. The audience is guided from recognisable geographies, such as Prague, Hong Kong, Spain, and Central America, into inner landscapes shaped by longing, absence, and imagination.
To translate their inner pathways between memories, emotions and present reality into a performance, both creators bring to the table their performative languages. Movement and narrative on one side, live audio-visual composition on the other. Videos and sounds are streamed and manipulated in real time, projected onto surfaces of varying textures and materials. This live mediation exposes the creative process, whilst aiding the performers in moulding the space according to their needs. As this is happening, and the inner worlds of the performers transform the stage, a dreamlike atmosphere is born and cared for.
Objects, physical scores, spoken text, sound, and projected imagery coexist without hierarchy. As projections and headlights are the only sources of light for this performance, special attention is placed on how elements appear and disappear on stage. This way, the stage becomes a playground for light to dialogue with its projected image, for objects to measure against a living body, for memories of both performers to mesh together, and for meaning to appear and dissolve in relation to the audience’s own experiences.
Rather than illustrating stories, the performance invites the audience to inhabit a shared emotional journey where personal histories resonate as collective experience.
Living with separation, chosen or imposed, has become a common condition now. Through anytime, anywhere, Jovita and Kristina share their own processes of navigating absence, distance, and care across borders. The work does not seek resolution, but offers a space of recognition: a reminder that the experience of missing someone is not carried alone.
Performed:
Prague Czech Republic | Proces 024 | May 2023
Prague Czech Republic | DISK | October 2023 to June 2024
Brno Czech Republic | Setkání/ ENCOUNTER Festival | April 2024
Tbilisi Georgia | Tbilisi International Student Theater Festival | May 2024
Awards:
The Marta Award in Directing | SETKÁNÍ / ENCOUNTER Festival | April 2024