Hello ..

New residents in the Pühavaimu residency program offered by Kanuti Gildi SAAL. 

Maike Lond 

Kaja Kann

Kaja is ex acrobat that gained success in the field of contemporary dance and performing arts.

Maike is failed musician trying to keep on performing because nothing gives her the high that stage can do.

The idea of the residency is that we will stay in a small blackbox for the whole month of March and to put it simply - we are here to develop ideas for artistic output on the subject of War and Sex. 

Yesterday Priit Raud, the curator, came and interviewed us, asking us what will it be about, what are our interests and what the audience could expect. 

Im not going to explain now why War and Sex and is it political matter for us or is it in relation to human rights or feminism or what.

More importantly at the moment our goal is to find some kind of methods how we could approach these topics within theater context.

Roughly said these are topics where we have the biggest chance to fail. One of our interests is to challenge failure. And with any artistic output there should be risk involved, meaning we'll try to avoid 'soft and safe' solutions.

Maybe something like making a B movie. Or Barbara Cartland. 

Hahhaa .. Kaja said in the interview we are two middle-aged women. 

Yes, in a nationalistic post-soviet country where 'politicians' are publicly chauvinist we will be definitely mocked.

 So, that fine. Its wrong from the start and we know it. 

There is a possibility that we will call it 'A Piece about Peace'.

There is a possibility that we form an Army.

That we declare a War.

That one of us dies during a Torture session.

That we will be prisoned in this blackbox 24/7.

That we will have public showings on the 9th, 24th and 31st of March. Anyone is welcome to give feedback.

Especially soldiers. 

(time for a quote)

'Nobel Peace Prize for 2009 is to be awarded to President Barack Obama for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples. The Committee has attached special importance to Obama's vision of and work for a world without nuclear weapons.' 

Isn't it great that we need war in order to 'fight' for peace. Thank God for that.