ANDREW BORG WIRTH: COLLABORATING ON 'OCHRE'

ON THE 18TH, 19TH AND 20TH FEBRUARY 2022, ŻFINMALTA PREMIERES ‘OCHRE’ BY GEORGIA TEGOU, AS PART OF THE NEW DOUBLE BILL ‘ŻFINDAYS’ AT VALLETTA CAMPUS THEATRE 

Andrew Borg Wirth,  set and costume design for ŻfinMalta’s ‘Ochre,’  and interdisciplinary artist, architect, and curator, tells us more…

“Thus the antiquarian seeks to both distance and appropriate the past. In order to entertain an antiquarian sensibility, a rupture in historical consciousness must have occurred, creating a sense that one can make one’s own culture other-distant and discontinuous. Time must be seen as concomitant with a loss of understanding, a loss which can be relieved through the reawakening of objects and, thereby, a reawakening of narrative.” – Susan Stewart in ‘On Longing: Narratives of the Miniature, the Gigantic, the Souvenir, the Collection’