Lola Lafon (novelist and composer) left Romania as a child in the late 1980s and had not returned until this visit. Sørensen and Köstler (installation/visual artists) and she revisited many of the places where she had lived as a child in Bucharest and then travelled to the coastal city of Constanta.
Lafon proposed a musical presentation to recount the story of her return to Romania.
The Danish artists developed a concept for a project called the Black Sea Oracle Games, based on the outrageous life story of an imaginary character called Martha Rubin and her vast family of illegitimate children who travel the world offering a paranormal/fortune telling “oracle” like advice. They imagined a three-day long performance installation in an old abandoned building (house or industrial/office).
Signa’s work was produced by SEAS in 2008 but Lafon did not make a formal proposal to SEAS.