fugue, from Latin fuga, related to both fugere ("to flee") and fugare
("to chase”)

1. Music: a contrapuntal composition in which a short melody or phrase (the subject) is introduced by one part and successively taken up by others and developed by interweaving the parts.
2. Psychiatry: A dissociative fugue is a temporary state where a person has memory loss and ends up in an unexpected place. People with this symptom can't remember who they are or details about their past.

fugue is a drama between self, body and world; a play for voids; a cave rave; a heretical consciousness; a fractal movement; a virginal space; a sludge situation; an attention reassignment surgery; a poetics of liminality; a bad analogy; a sideways time; a kenophile dwelling; a sentient siege; a bewildered wandering.

Sound, music, light and scenographic design by Patsy Lassbo.

Text by Ruby Nilsson. 

Graphic design by Mika Kastner Johnson.

fugue was shown in Amsterdam at DasTheater 2024.

Photos by Thomas Lenden.