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Immersive, Intimate, Unforgettable — A Testament To Love.
My Undying Love is an intimate, immersive, and interactive performance installation that places the audience at the heart of an emotional narrative about love, loss, and the final moments shared with a dying loved one. Limited to just 10 audience members per session, the performance invites participants to embody the role of family and friends gathered around a hospital bed in the last hours of life.
My Undying Love is a deeply personal exploration inspired by Andreas Constantinou’s mother’s passing from terminal cancer. During her illness, Andreas conducted intimate interviews with his mother, asking questions about what love means, memories of her own experience losing her mother, and her wishes for those left behind. These recordings form the immersive soundscape that guides the audience through the performance, creating a layered dialogue between past and present, memory and presence.
The installation itself is a custom-built, dreamlike chapel, designed as a surreal and sacred space. A 360-degree surround video envelops the audience, portraying Andreas walking into the deep ocean until he is slowly submerged into the dark unknown. His body then appears to float ethereally around the room, suspended in the void, while his live, unconscious form lies at the centre of the chapel on a hospital bed, connected to a heart monitor.
Within this evocative setting, the audience is gently guided by two nurses to participate in a series of intimate and interactive rituals— waiting, holding space, listening, sharing presence, and honouring the body through casting and ornamenting. Though rooted in Andreas’s personal story, My Undying Love opens a door for collective mourning, offering a universal space to hold grief, love, and memory together.
Awards & Nominations
- Winner of the ScenekunstPris: Performance of the Year 2022
- Reumert Award (Danish National Theatre Award) Nominated for Best Performance 2022
Work with us
We are always looking to collaborate with theatres, festivals, co-producers, and community partners to bring this work to new audiences. If you are interested in hosting, supporting, or participating in the project, we would love to hear from you.
REVIEWS & FEEDBACK
“There is a beautiful vulnerability in My Undying Love. My Undying Love is beautiful in its design, unique in its approach, highly aesthetic in its finesse and cordial in its humanity. The performance installation as a whole is both heart breaking and believable and I give this performance my highest recommendations.” – KulturNyt
It was amazing. A very personal story and therefore very relevant. There were many similarities with the passing of my own dear mother which was a special and intimate affair. The whole atmosphere was beautiful. Impressive installation and so wild that the artist could lie there still for so long. In a way we the audience were all in a kind of meditation mode and even though we were strangers we got closer to each other throughout the performance. All in all, a great experience and the artist has also managed to say a beautiful goodbye to his mother. – Audience
It was a great experience, very inspiring – Audience
A beautiful and touching art installation – Audience
My Undying Love succeeds in making death accessible as a theme and initiating the mourning process of parting. With the performer Andreas lying on his deathbed, the work comes to represent death as such, and the spectators are each given the opportunity to associate with their own mortality. In this performance Andreas shares the personal story of his mother’s death yet the performance opens up a larger perspective that everyone can somehow relate to and feel touched and challenged by. Spectators are invited to participate in the work which creates a special form of self-reflection. You are, so to speak, free to imagine your personal parting with a dead person, a previous death, a person who will one day die or perhaps even imagine your own departure. My Undying Love opens up a hard-to-reach topic, which is achieved through the art works personal and painful content, and by gently guiding the spectator’s step by step through a staged death ritual. – Peripeti Magazine
My Undying Love is still running in my body and mind, one day after – it will keep rushing in, I’m afraid. The performance shakes the deepest human vulnerabilities, leaving the “spectator” alone with its own story and, at the same time, with the stories of everyone else. This immersive performance opens and breaks you from within, socking you in the guts, but through the most delicate and sensitive touch of the performers. It queers the way of imagining and staging performing art, bringing life and death to meet endlessly. – Audience message
Thank you for yet another enriching, thought provoking and life-affirming experience. – Kathrine Hee
