FESTIVE
Monika Korpa (Pormale) (Latvia)A single balloon has the ability to make anyone look up for a split second.
As if it signified some unknown source of joy, a beginning, a foundation or a root.
It is big – because a lot has happened, accumulated and filled up over these 30 years.
And, after all, a balloon is usually used to visit someone or congratulate them – in short, for a joyful occasion.
In my opinion, this balloon embodies the Festival Homo Novus, because it is about that simple feeling of joy, smiling through tears, and the many emotions that come from being together with like-minded, like-feeling people, or simply people who want to feel something.
This year, we will “fill the air” with joy in many places in Riga and elsewhere, including Daugavpils, the venue of the first ever Homo Novus Festival.
About artist
Monika Korpa (Pormale) is a Latvian stage and costume designer who has worked on numerous opera and theatre productions in Latvia and across Europe. Her works are distinguished by contemporary aesthetics, spatial boldness, and symbolic depth. Among her works from the previous season are the play The Method at Berlin’s Volksbühne, the opera Salome at the Grand Théâtre de Genève, and at the Deutsche Oper Berlin. As a scenography student, Monika, together with like-minded colleagues, created works for the first Homo Novus festival in 1995, and this year she warmly greets the festival on its 30th anniversary.