Wedding Journey

by Kristina Pulejkova

Chifte Hamam, National Gallery Skopje, North Macedonia
December 2019

The R&D for this project has been developed as part of the FLAMIN Fellowship Programme and it’s supported by the Arts Council England and the Fenton Arts Trust. The exhibition production is supported by the Ministry of Culture, North Macedonia.

Wedding Journey is an immersive installation consisting of 360 VR video, holographic projection on water screens and sound, looking at the mysterious life cycle and migration of the critically endangered European eel.

Do You Think About Home?, 2019, projection mapping on water screens and sound, exhibited at Chifte Hamam, National Gallery Skopje, North Macedonia

Told from the eels’ perspective, the project aims to cast a light on the story of this critically endangered animal whose existence is threatened by human action and climate change. Here, the eels are taken as a metaphor for the human strife for self-fulfilment, the seek for the utopian place and state.

Concept & Direction
KRISTINA PULEJKOVA

Water screen choreography and 360 VR dance sequence
GEORGIA TEGOU

360 VR cinematography
AMELIA SHIVANI HASARD

Music
GLEN JOHNSON

Performers
AMY DAKIN HARRIS, REBECCA NAMGAUDS, VANESSA MICHIELON, MICHALIS THEOPHANOUS, ANTONIA PTOHIDES

The script for the water screen projections is informed by interviews with Dr. Matthew Gollock, ZSL (Zoological Society London), chair of the AESG (Anguillid Eel Specialist Group) and Dr. Joe Pecorelli, Citizen Science Project Leader, ZSL, research from Dr. Zoran Spirkovski, Hydrobiological institute in Ohrid, North Macedonia on the European eel living in the Ohrid lake.