門 MON

門 Mon by composer Olga Szymula draws on a wide range of expressions, including film, animation, performance and experimental electronic music. 門 Mon (Jp. gate) is inspired by Japanese culture and the novel The Woman in the Dunes by Kobo Abe. Kobo Abe’s novel tells an incredible story about a person who lives alone in a deep sand pit, with the sole purpose in life to move sand. Until the moment where the meaning of that life suddenly becomes uncertain. Szymula, both fascinated and puzzled by the book, constructed her own narrative. Through her personal rewriting of the novel she created a work in the form of an intimate rite of passage for the main character of the piece. The audience is invited to an individual immersive experience involving sound, image, presence and space.