
Jenny Kalliokulju, MAMAN or The Tounge, 2024 Photo: Martin Magntorn Courtesy: The artist
Opera – MAMAN, or THE TOUNGE
Chamber Opera by Jenny Kalliokulju
8.2 – 9.2 2025
Malmö
Date and time: 8 February at 18.00 and 9 February at 13.00
Location: Loading Dock
Language: Swedish
Ticket: Tickets will be released on 20 January and will be booked here. Admission fee is included in the ticket.
Length: approx 50 min
The museum and Kafé Sisko are open until 20.00 this Saturday.
Contact: Andreas Nilsson, Curator Moderna Museet Malmö
The aim is an interdisciplinary, anti-hierarchical Gesamtkunstwerk, in which a painting installation also takes the shape of scenography and costumes during the performance of the opera.
Formally, Kalliokulju’s work is often a collaboration (real or fictitious) with other artists, writers and academics. In the libretto, these voices form a choir and a dialogue together, which evokes a universal state of existential reflection and a striving for co-existence. The libretto comes from the artist’s own experiences as a mother of two. Everyday life, feelings of inadequacy are all palpable. Yet, despite its personal point of departure it captures a strongly familiar situation of everyday life’s cycles of relationships and physical bodies.
Performers: Margaretha Dalhamn, Carl Henning Fredriksson, Jenny Kalliokulju, Johanna Kalliokulju, Tobias Kalliokulju, Oskar Roslund
Light: Sofia Ivarsson
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