(European Premiere)

Inspired by a dream of awaiting nuclear destruction in a glass shelter, Shelter 9 defines the Nuclear Age by the very absence of a decisive event. Originally conceived as a dance theatre performance, the piece has been re-designed as a digital video installation where multiple projections portray a titular shelter – a sentient, dreaming greenhouse. It was created when computers were neither accessible nor powerful enough by using animated images produced through optical manipulations and a fish bowl.  

Rika Ohara has been breaking rules and stretching available technology since the 80’s, projecting negative films and Xerographic transparencies, optically bending and manipulating images to create work that is low-budget high-tech.   

"The images are haunting, a continuously moving calligraphy of suffering. What we see seems to be not on the outside but inside the retina: vision here has a subliminal quality that is echoed in the ambient music." Peter Schwenger author, Letter Bomb

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