Time: 10/10 – 14/10, 2005
Place: Viejo Hospital Espanol, Cordoba, Argentina. The project was part of the international theatre festival Festival de Mercosur
Duration: 4 days nonstop (100 hours)
Number of participants: 14
Resumé: The Ultra Wedding took place in a closed down hospital. The performers were local Argentinian actors apart from Signa Sørensen and Arthur Köstler.
The performance was based on improvisations around themes and constellations generated by 5 spinning wheels. The central point of fiction was ‘The Game’, a complex ritual construction, which has also been part of Sugar Drops and the Night Finder projects.
This harsh satirical work deals with power structures, rituals and archtypical representations in pop-culture.
A group of people are kept in an abandoned hospital. At all hours they play fatal and mysterious game of crashing realities and identities as dictated by the wheels of fortune and a self-declared goddess. The players know neither who is behind the game nor what will be the conseqenses of the outcome, but sensing the underlying danger and the undifinable yet crucial significance of their every move they put their life on stake and place all their bets.


CREDITS

Concept, installation and direction: Signa Sørensen
Performers: Signa Sørensen, Arthur Köstler, Hernán Espinosa, Ricardo Antich Blas, Sebastián Pellegrini, JoséJaccard, Maria Pia Bertoldi, Sol Montaldo, Monica Garcia, Valentina Etchart, Yoya Torres, Marcela Leiva, Elisa Ferrari and Mette Schwarz Sørensen
Production: Angelica Berdini assisted by Clarisa Ezpeleta
Light and Sound: Signa Sørensen & Arthur Köstler
Photo: Abril Lopez, Melina Passadore, Tomás Gianola, Laura Vazquez, Candela Gomez & Nicolas Salguero
Supported by: Kunststyrelsen (The Danish Art Counsil), Agencia de Cultura Cordoba and Babel