Insomnia is an upcoming contemporary circus solo by aerialist Jakob Jacobsson
assisted by light designers Nico de Rooij and Teo Lanerva. The solo is being
developed as an ongoing research project into the relationship between circus and
light design, and is set to premiere in 2026. The piece blends the light installation with
aerial rope as a way to question the way we use light in performances, and then
utilises this interdisciplinary cross-over as a starting point to investigate our relation
to time, and how subjective it can be.
The performance creates an intimate atmosphere where the audience is invited
to completely embrace the sense of losing track of time, and to reflect on their
own relationship to time and how it affects them, and how they can affect it.
The theme is (almost) universally relatable since, after all,
we all know the feeling of running out of time, or feeling like something taking “forever”.
About the Company
Jakob Jacobsson is a Swedish-born, Netherlands-based, aerial rope artist.
He works both collectively and solo as a circus performer, rigger and artist. He
spends his time in his two companies, The Nordic Council and Revue Regret, or in
different circus-adjacent pursuits. He recently completed the pioneering artistic
research program at ICCAR (international circus centre for artistic research) and he
is selected for the New Horizons Leadership Program (operated by the Baltic
Nordic Circus Network). He enjoys Tom Waits, coffee and playing the accordion in
his spare time.
About the Location
A place where movement art is created in and for Cologne-Kalk