Composer and musician nan Cifra brings Tangled in Narratives to NEXT. Tangled in Narratives is an audiovisual performance featuring the live presentation of material from her upcoming debut album. On the album, she explores narrative as a tool for constructing reality, and the ways in which we use personal stories to create meaning and to define the boundaries of sense, our identity and our perception of the world.

Together with performer and choreographer Jitka Sára Pániková and set designer and visual artist Jan Matýsek, she creates a performative situation in which sound, physicality and visuality become abstracted elements of the narrative principle of perception.

The performance also features harpo, an original instrument visually designed by sculptor Magdalena Rybanská. It is a reinterpretation of the harp, transformed into a hybrid object with new sonic and aesthetic qualities. Its technical solution was developed in collaboration with multimedia artist and electronic engineer Antonín Gazda. Harpo functions not only as a musical instrument but also as a performative entity, a bearer of memory, physicality and fiction.