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Fortune Tellers Future art: Formverk

Stina and Niclas visited the Roma theater Suno e Rromengo in the village of Novi Karlovci to meet the actors, and to get the feeling of the Roma theater working environment. First they filmed the space, treating it as a part of the spirit of this teater. Then, Niclas and Stina made short movies with the Roma actors, having in mind their particular roles in the Fortune Tellers Future performances.

Fortune Tellers Future art: Jean Ploteau

This container might have been a “neonatal intensive care unit” (baby incubator), or it might have been a plastic holder used for researching some dangerous bacteria – it depends how we want to see it: do we want to treat Jeans Roma stories with special care, as something fragile, gentle, or as something contagious and dangerous?

Fortune Tellers Future art: Misko Stanisic

Especially for the Fortune Tellers Future project, Captain Sorrow & Primitive Dance recorded a music piece “Roma Dreams” inspired by the destiny of the Roma in Europe, made on digital and analog music instruments and sounds of railway stations and subway trains announcements from around Europe. Misko also made a set of pictures “Roma Dreams”.

Fortune Tellers Future art: Captain Sorrow & Primitive Dance

It is a 18 minutes long piece involving dreamy electronic soundscapes, piano, theremin, moog synthesizers, loops, and sounds of the subway and railway stations from England, Sweden, Russia and Ukraine. It’s about eternal travelers, wandering souls without home and about belonging nowhere and everywhere. Read more and listen to the music…