Hibernation

Hibernation is an audio-visual visceral exploration of feelings of isolation and depression. The piece delves into the anonymous main character’s inner world, where she both longs and dreads to connect with other people, feeling adversed and scared of leaving her inner sanctuary.

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Throughout the piece, we follow how she (quite literally) floats between her stagnant existence and vivid dreams and hyper-reality, where the dreamworld at times feels more real and substantive than her true mundane existence.

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The intent of Hibernation is not to give a traditional linear story or instructions of how to overcome loneliness or depression, but to through music and video give form and expression to abstract and intangible emotions, which anyone who experiences isolation can connect to and therefore feel less alone.

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Even though the themes and concept of Hibernation were born in the summer of 2019, fittingly to the theme, Hibernation was to a far extent created over a period of covid lock-downs. Apart from a few days of working together at Ircam in Paris, Sebastian created the music in Finland and Paris while Jenny made the animation in Scotland.

Electronic parts of the work were realized in the studios of Ircam-Centre Pompidou.