ENTER Festival - THE ADVENTURES OF DORA, WOLFIE, AND THE INVISIBLE GUN - Veronika Abdul-Visocka

In my performance “THE ADVENTURES OF DORA, WOLFIE AND THE INVISIBLE GUN” I explore invisible weapons. I examine the subject of violence, specifically how patriarchal and militaristic violence is represented and materialized in everyday life. Starting from my personal experience and positioning towards patriarchal regimes of power, I look at how the shadow of violence infiltrates every aspect of life, how people are forced to cope with it, and with the alienation that it brings.

… is a looping investigation that takes invisible weapons seriously. … is an attempt to understand what happened to those who were killed with invisible bullets, who are stuck in the video game, who are stuck in the theatre, who go on a (hero’s) journey. … is an attempt to learn how to play first-person shooter video games. … is a failure to learn. … is a failure to understand. … is a refusal to learn to understand. … is catastrophic thinking that becomes theatre as an attempt to communicate to communicate pain that is hard to deal with.

About the maker Veronika Abdul-Visocka (*1997, Latvia) is a theatre maker, dramaturg and performer. Her work is informed by a power-critical hybrid perspective, shaped by the multiple languages, religions, and political systems she grew up with. Veronika is interested in exploring concepts of fluidity and multiversality as well as the capacity for transformation. In her creations, she combines auto-ethnographic and auto-fictional material with elements of critical theory. Inserting multiple perspectives and different media into the theatre, she uncovers invisible forms of violence and their impact on personal lives and social relations.