Do Be Do

[Performer, collective devising]

A production of Oblivia, 2016.

Working group, devising and performing | Mikko Bredenberg, Andrius Katinas, Maija Hirvanen, Anna-Maija Terävä, Timo Fredriksson, Annika Tudeer
Light design | Meri Ekola
Sound design | Juuso Voltti
Costume design | Tua Helve Photos: Saara Autere
Production and marketing |Oblivia, Marina Andersson-Rahikka, Heidi Backström

An improvised performance based on Oblivia’s Do What You Saw Method

A fifth and final part of Museum of Postmodern Art Series.

Do be do – MOPMA 5 arrived in today’s world. How to present the present? What is postmodernism in the present? What is carpe diem anyway? In order to get at the here and now we oscillate between the past and the future and like Tarzans dangling in the liane we fly over the abyss that is today.

When Oblivia started the MOPMA (Museum of Postmodern Art) performance series in 2012 they knew they were at a crossroad. Today they know what road they have chosen and the starting point seems to be like another era. DoBeDo is the end and also a new beginning. We live the era of the monsters, in which the only bravery that is required is to remain humane.

The work is based on Do what you saw method that Oblivia has developed as a starting point for their processes, Do be do – MOPMA 5 will take Do what you saw into a performance with six performers. In Do be do – MOPMA 5 the working method will for the first time be presented in a performance context. Do be do – MOPMA 5 is the live history of an era and the autobiography of Oblivia.

Premiere | 3.10.2016 at CIRKO, Helsinki