2023 - MOT FRYSEN! (To the freezer!)

The exhibition consisted of paintings and sculptures, as well as the operetta-performance: MOT FRYSEN!

The operetta-performance MOT FRYSEN! is an absurd story in five acts where time and everyday life play a central role. The piece is influenced by Virginia Woolf and Erik Beckman's works; To the Lighthouse, and Someone, something. Kalliokulju uses Woolf and Beckman´s works as a fictional conversation and as a starting point, to create something repetitive and lucid.  MOT FRYSEN! is an investigation into the human inner sea of thoughts, where repetition and loneliness are mixed up by strange rhymes, time traveling, and dinner ingredients, against the background of an environmental disaster.  

MOT FRYSEN! Begins with the character Maj who has fallen into her freezer. In the story, there is also a "Frenchman" who is buried in his own potato field, a frozen cat, a liver-stew, and a choir. The chorus is a kind of omniscient and ancient narrator, dressed in dreamy pyjamas. The chorus drives the action forward, while Life's liver-stew bubbles and burns on the stove. All characters are stuck in their own everyday pattern and loneliness. For the premiere at Röstånga Konsthall, the characters have been scaled down and mixed up. The dialogues are carried between a singing voice, a reciting voice, and a teeming soundscape. 

(Full operetta: 25 minutes) 
Participating Vocals: Sanna-Leena Rinne 
Soundscape: Ola Paulson 
Text, scenography, recitation, and costume: Jenny Kalliokulju

Röstånga konsthall, Röstånga (Sweden)
Documentation: Andreas Kurtsson, Jenny Kalliokulju