Held in Human II: Rose in Your Brain

Liis Vares, Taavet Jansen

Held in Human II: Rose in Your Brain at HeadRead festival.

  • Authors:Liis Vares and Taavet Jansen
  • Mixed reality solution:Norbert Pape
  • Sound design:Mihkel Tomberg
  • Graphic design:Jaan Evart
  • Room design:Mari Möldre
  • Photographer:Alissa Šnaider
  • Videographer:Piibe Kolka
  • Producer:Anu Almik, elekrton.art
  • Language:English or Estonian
  • Duration:30 minutes
  • The performance can be experienced by two people at the same time.
  • Tickets:7 EUR on sale at Fienta
  • Performances at the HeadRead festival in Tallinn:May 28-30, 2025 between 11-20 and and May 31, 2025 between 12.30-19. A new show starts every half hour.
  • Place:The performances take place at the National Library of Estonia, Small building of RaRa, Narva mnt 11, Tallinn.
  • Supporters:Estonian Ministry of Culture, Cultural Endowment of Estonia, Tallinn city, Dortmund Academy of Theater and Digitality, Estonian Academy of Arts through the ACuTe project, Erasmus program, VARES Valga Architecture Residency, University of Tartu, National Library of Estonia

Flower seed inside you
Rose inside you
Flowering and prickling
Rose in your brain

Something is changing, I can no longer make sense of what here means, as I increasingly feel that while I am here, I am also always a little bit there. There, where my thoughts are, there where my imagination roams — and not only mine, but someone else’s as well, simultaneously. It is real. I am always inside a body, in this form that makes me visible and touchable; yet I am also always in a space, where no one can see me. It is a space of thought, an invisible space, but also an ever-present network, a movement. I am present, held in human.

‘Held in Human II: Rose in Your Brain’ is a mixed reality performance, a collective thought space where linguistic thinking meets the instinctive physique. It is a physical reading experience, choreography of thoughts that you can experience within your own body using mixed reality glasses. Plug in — let your body and thoughts carry you.

The European premiere of the performance "Held in Human II: Rose in Your Brain" took place on October 26-27, 2024 at the Performing Arts & Digitalität (PAD) festival in Wiesbaden, Germany, and the Estonian premiere of the performance took place on November 14, 2024 at the University of Tartu Library.