College of Arts & Humanities

NINA

Thinking Culture | School of Culture & Creative Arts | College of Arts & Humanities
Date: Tuesday 13 August 2024
Time: 19:30
Venue: The Rum Shack
Category: Films and theatre, Student events
Website: thinkingculture.gla.ac.uk/event/the-seagull-performance/

In a play written in 1895 Nina is like the seagull, shot by a man who is in love with her. A writer, who she is in love with, comes along and prophesises that because he is bored, he will ruin her too.

Seagulls make the most uninhabitable places home – they call it ‘homing.’ Like a volcanic island that broke surface in the sea to the south of Iceland in 1963 – no birds could nest in those conditions, but thousands of great black-backed gulls came, transferred fertilizer and nutrient from ocean to rock to make a dead world live and transformed the place.

Now, we join Nina as she sets out on a journey to find an uninhabitable place to call home, searching for the contours between real and not, flesh and thermoplastic, bird and woman (herself and the seagull). In navigating the metaphors that mark her life, she is assisted by two women.

This project is supported by Thinking Culture funding 2023-24, awarded to PhD student Gonca Yalcin and collaborator Katie Moody.

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