Oslooslointernasjonale Internasjonale 09.–18.03. 2017 Teaterfestival
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Oslo Internasjonale Oslo Internasjonale Teaterfestival Teaterfestival 09.–18.03. 2017 Editorial 1 Let it go! Oslo Internasjonale Teaterfestival bodies toward emotionality. In has been the pulsing heart of various formats and durations, Black Box teater’s Spring season they are allowing themselves to since 2013. Daring, cutting edge make emotion tangible, through and surprising, it’s become an soft, contained exposure or by annual rendez-vous for performing assuming it in a glowing, violent arts in Oslo in March. and confrontational manner. There Artists of different generations is vulnerability on display, by the from all over the world, both fami artists as well as the spectators, liar names and newcomers, will who are invited to navigate these gather for ten concentrated, vibrat sensitive experiences subjectively ing days of live art experi ences, in all their fragility, ambiguity, including several Nor wegian complexity, guts and glory, premieres. By crossing artistic beauty and sorrow. practices, these artists open up Quoting the Japanese noise a stimulating dialogue between musician Keiji Haino from the performing arts, music and visual booklet accompanying his album arts, challenging what the art Live 2: “Too long or too short? experience can be. That depends on just how your This year, Oslo Internasjonale heart melts.” Teaterfestival will be unfolding Come, join, enjoy and let it go! throughout the city in cultural ven It will melt beautifully anyway. ues, intimate spaces and public squares. It’s a way to bring art into – our daily lives and create a poetic AnneCécile SibuéBirkeland relationship to our environment. Artistic and In an unstable political con General Director text where the ultraspectacular reigns, there is a need to claim other forms of expression. Art ists are turning their heads and Artist Title Norwegian Premiere Kate McIntosh Worktable (NZ/BE) Worktable is an ongoing live and working in collaborations with installation that contemplates other artists such as Tim Etchells, and completes acts of creation Eva MeyerKeller, Jo Randerson, and destruction using every day, Lilia Mestre, Charo Calvo, Diederik domestic objects. You’re welcome Peeters, and many more. Kate has to visit for a short or long time. directed several short videos and Open for several hours everyday, she was a founding member of the the installation takes place in a Belgian performance collective series of rooms. and punkrock band Poni. She is Once inside you are given a founding member of SPIN: the instructions and equipment so you artistrun production and research can get to work quickly. It’s up to platform based in Brussels. you to decide how things come apart, and how they come back together. You can hack to pieces or dismantle a teacup, umbrella, Concept and realization: Kate McIntosh. alarm clock or newspaper. With an Production: SPIN. Commissioned in the frame of the event ‘Performance Is a Dirty instruction manual under your arm Work’ funded by Roehampton University. – one spectator at a time – you are With thanks to: Bruno Roubicek, Hester on your way to facing up to your Chillingworth, Caroline Daish, Palli Banine, own responsibility. Ant Hampton, Joe Kelleher, Tim Etchells, Adrian Heathfield, Simon Bayly. Kate McIntosh is an artist working across the boundaries of Duration 45–90 minutes performance, theatre, video and according to your own wish. installation. From New Zealand Free entrance, no booking required. Entrance every 15 minutes. and originally trained in dance, she has performed internationally We also present a version for kids, since 1995. Since 2004 she has see page 22. focused on directing her own work including solos, installation work Location Time 3 Grønlands - March 9–11 leiret 18 March 16–18 14.00–20.00 “There is no doubt there is a strangely therapeutic feeling to reconstituting an object, as if you are apologising to it somehow, and to perhaps everything you have intentionally and unnoticingly broken in your life. The object be comes a totem to the potential that we all hold to continue the cycle of destruction and renewal of ideas and objects, with all the pathos and hope that entails”. This is Tomorrow, Contemporary Art Magazine Photo: Kate McIntosh Kate Photo: Artist Title Premiere Mette oslo Edvardsen (NO) With this new piece, I continue presenting her own work inter the process of writing that I have nationally since 2002. She is developed in previous works. In currently a research fellow at Oslo the trilogy Black (2011), No Title National Academy of the Arts. (2014) and We to be (2015), I was exploring the possibilities and limits of language and how this ex- tends into real space. The access Created and performed by: Mette Edvardsen. to imagination took place through In collaboration with: Mari Matre Larsen et al. Music composed by: Matteo Fargion. language, and the closeness to Light design: Bruno Pocheron. Produc- the audience developed with the tion assistant: Maya Wilsens. Production: writing. With oslo, I aim at another Mette Edvardsen/Athome, Manyone vzw. way of generating presence and Co-production: Kaaitheater (Brussels), BUDA (Kortrijk), Black Box teater (Oslo), Teaterhuset imagination, where not only the Avant Garden (Trondheim), BIT Teatergarasjen performer on stage is central to (Bergen), Skogen (Gothenburg). Supported what is taking place. This time by: Arts Council Norway, Norwegian Artistic the writing extends into the whole Research Program – Oslo National Academy of the Arts, APAP network (EU) theatre space, multiplying the voices, the actions, the moments, Duration: ca. 60 minutes. the imaginations – the things and the beings. – Mette Edvardsen The work of Mette Edvardsen is situated within the performing arts, but also explores other media and formats such as video, books and writing, with an emphasis on their relationship to the perform ing arts as practice and situation. She has been developing and Location Time 5 Black Box teater March 9–10 Lille scene 19.00 Photo: Meette Edvardsen Meette Photo: Company Title Lost and Found Different Kinds Productions of Stars (NO) Searching through dirty swimwear in Things we love: Rock’n’roll, the Lost and Found. A theater piece children’s choirs, green and pink, at its loudest. A time capsule of the Norwegian Theater Academy, NOW NOW. A dance with a stranger. witches, cosplay, teenage rage, pop A birthday song for the newest born. princesses, glitter and people in A lullaby for the POST POST. We general. rewrite the future in menstrual blood – a fortune cookie maybe? star dust, rock star, superstar Choreographic composers and wannabe star wars, porn star, fallen star rock stars: Nikoline Spjekavik and Victoria Fredrikke Schou Røising. Band/performers: star struck, star trek, david star Ulf H. S. Knudsen, Johanna H. Kleive and star fish, star signs, northern star Henry Solstrand. Guiding stars: Magnus all star, sing star, shooting star Børmark, Ulf H. S. Knudsen. Light design/AV/ star light, star tour, christmas star technician: Tim Finset. Helping Hand: Shirley Karlsen. Original music by: Victoria F. S. ringo starr, star map, shining star Røising, Nikoline Spjelkavik and Ulf H. S. starspangled banner Knudsen. Borrowed: Projected footage by starring me and my best friends Color Trips Animation LLC, Introduction wannabe star, communist star soundtrack by Kerry Muzzey, Space sounds by NASA Space Recordings. Special thanks to: SUPERNOVA (an exploding star Prof. Karmenlara Ely, Dr. Camilla Eeg-Tverbakk, that produces an extremely Dr. Øystein Elle, David Bowie, Pussy Riot, Nick bright light) Cave, Turboneger, mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, friends and lazy lovers. Supported by: Norwegian Theatre Academy/Østfold Univer- Lost and Found Productions is a sity College Teaterklubb’81, Alveland AS. newborn theatre company run by Victoria Fredrikke Schou Røising Duration: ca. 50 minutes. and Nikoline Spjelkavik. The com The performance is followed by the festival pany was founded in 2016 and has opening party. Join! premiered the performances: Rebel Angels, Different Kinds of Stars and Rebel Angels, next level. Location Time 7 Black Box teater March 9 Foyer 21.00 Photo: Bård Halvorsen Bård Photo: Artist Title Tormod Carlsen O – The (NO) Healing Lump This small onemantheater is shaped like a shiny lump and Contributors: Tormod Carlsen, Heidi Dalene, works like a healing machine. Anne Sigrid Hveem, Toril Bonaksen, Petter Width, Nina Andreasen, Tessa, Eivind You are invited to embark on a Seljeseth, Mine Yalcin, Michael Finne Riley, ten minute healing session, in the Sigmund Carlsen, Anders Firing Aardal, Inga form of an associative journey Aleknaviciute, Øystein Fredheim, Corentin JPM through nature’s wrath. Inside Leven, Mariann Hansen, Gulli Kristina Sexe. Supported by: Arts Council Norway. the lump are a small panoramic theater and a weather machine Duration: ca. 10 minutes. inspired by the panoramic theaters Free entrance, no booking required. of the 18th century and ancient Show up during the opening hours and register at the door. forms of therapy. Seeing everything as land scape has been Tormod Carlsen’s longstanding fascination. He has sought out places and contexts marked by paradox ever since he moved to Russia to train as a circus artist after completing his upper secondary education. In settings of contrast and oppo sition Carlsen finds the potential to twist a situation. In addition to Russia, he has studied theatre at the University of Teheran and directing at Oslo National Academy of the Arts. As of January 2017 Tormod Carlsen is an associated artist at Black Box teater for a period of two years. Location Time 9 Dælenenga March 10–12 15.00–19.00 Gråbeinsletta March 17–18 13.00–17.00 Photo: Sigmund Carlsen Sigmund Photo: Company Title Norwegian Premiere Kate McIntosh In Many Hands (NZ/BE) With In Many Hands Kate McIntosh dives into the tactile Concept & direction: Kate McIntosh. Light & technique: Joëlle Reyns. and the multi sensory, inviting Technical direction tour: Michele Piazzi.