Verdensteatret is an art group based in Oslo.
The group consist of artists from many different artistic professions making installations, performance art, concerts and other art related works.
Characteristic for the works is that they are building exquisite links between seemingly incompatible technologies and materials.
The experimental use of audiovisual technology in a close dialogue with more traditional and historic tools of artistic expression results in complex orchestral works or space-related musical compositions.
The works of Verdensteatret are presented widely international.
The intermedial characteristic of the works makes it natural to show them in various contexts such as art-museums/galleries, theatre/stage rooms, contemporary music-festivals, etc.
Verdensteatret is supported by Arts Council Norway and other official art-foundations in Norway.
Germany premiere of the new live performance And All the Questionmarks Started to Sing
at Theatre Der Welt, Essen, Germany 08, 09 - 11 July
Solo exhibition at Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China.
Title: “Telling Orchestras and Funeral Machines”
2 large scale installation works. Date:19 March – 18 April 2010.
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2009.
Production of new large scale installations.
Production of new live performance based on the installation material.
Presentation of the previous work louder in Florence Italy at Intercity Festival. Oct.2009.
2008.
“The Telling Orchestra”
Installation at the exhibition “SYNTHETIC TIMES - MEDIA ART CHINA 2008”.
Presented by the National Art Museum of China, (NAMOC) Beijing, June/july -08.
“The Telling Orchestra”
Presented at DORA, Trondheim Nov. 08
louder
Presented in 2008:
Bergen Festspillene.
USA: Philadelphia Arts Festival, PS 122 New York City, Empac/Troy NY,
DORA,Trondheim
Research period in Western China and Khazakstan. (August 2008)
2007.
louder (Performance/installation/concert)
Opening night 05 October -07
Black Box Theatre, Oslo, Norway
Research period on Mekong river and in Vietnam (2 months, spring 2007)
2007.
“The Telling Orchestra”
+ the louder-room
Exhibition of installation works at Kunstnernes Hus. Oslo, Norway. Oct-Dec.-07
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2006.
“CONCERT FOR GREENLAND” (performance/concert/installation)
steirischer herbst festival, Graz, Austria.
De Singel, Antwerpen, Belgium.
TRAFO House of Contemporary Art, Budapest, Hungary.
2006
“FORTELLERORKESTERET” (“The Telling Orchestra”) (exhibition)
Kunsthaus Graz and steirischer herbst festival . Graz, Austria.
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2005
“FORTELLERORKESTERET” (“The Telling Orchestra”) (exhibition)
Electro-mechanical installation.
Exhibited: “THOU Scene”, Stavanger, Norway
2003: Research period on Greenland.
2003-2005
“CONCERT FOR GREENLAND” (performance/concert/installation)
“Ultima International Festival of Contemporary Music”, Black Box Theatre, Oslo, Norway
“DETOX” BIT Teatergarasjen, Bergen, Norway
AvantGarden, Trondheim, Norway
Kulturhuset Stockholm, Sweden
The Norwegian Opera (Performing at seminar on Space-related art) Oslo, Norway
Stamsund International Theatrefestival, Lofoten
“International Theatrefestival Divadelna” Nitra. Slovakia.
PS 122, New York City, USA
2005 Awarded “The bessie Award 20052 in category “New media, Performance & Installation”
2003
“MANDALA” (performance/installation)
BIT Teatergarasjen, Bergen, Norway
2003 Awarded “The Telenor Cultural Prize 2003” (forinventive use of technology in art)
2001-2003.
“TSALAL” (performance/concert/installation)
Research period in Ukrain, The black Sea and Istanbul.
Presented: The Annual Exhibition for Visual Art, Oslo, Norway
Black Box Theatre, Oslo, Norway
AvantGarden, Trondheim, Norway
European Digital Stage Art Festival, Århus, Denmark
"ULTIMA" Festival for Contemporary Music, Oslo, Norway
Haugesund Theatre, Haugesund, Norway
"MAGMA" Festival for New Nordic Music, Berlin, Germany
“Autunnale New Music Festval” , BIT Teatergarasjen, Bergen, Norway
“Center for Cultural Decontamination”, Beograd, Serbia
Museum of Contemporary Art, Reykjavik, Island
2000-2001
"RÉGLA" (Installation/Performance)
Research period in Cuba.
Black Box Theatre, Oslo, Norway
Museum for Contemporary Art, Oslo, Norway
BIT Teatergarasjen, Bergen, Norway
AvantGarden, Trondheim, Norway
Savoy Theatre Helsinki, Finland
Kulturhuset Stockholm, Sweden
2000 "The RÉGLA-room" (installation)
Interactive installation at "Oslo Open" Oslo, Norway
Awarded “The Stage Art Prize” From The Norwegian Theatre Association.
1998-1999 "Faust / Massnahme" (Performance)
Black Box Theatre, Oslo, Norway
BIT Teatergarasjen, Bergen, Norway
AvantGarden, Trondheim, Norway
1997 "READ MY LIPS" (Performance)
Zoolounge Club, Oslo, Norway
1996-1997 “PHILOKTETES” (Performance)
Black Box Theatre, Oslo, Norway
BIT Teatergarasjen, Bergen, Norway
"The Theatre Festival in Kongsvinger", Kongsvinger, Norway
Pusterviksteatern, Göteborg, Sweden
1996 “How to reach Marselisgate without crying” (Performance)
ONE NIGHT STAND Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, Norway
1995 “ORFEO / 7 AGAINST THEBE” (Performance)
Black Box Theatre, Oslo, Norway
BIT Teatergarasjen, Bergen, Norway
“Nordic Theatre Festival” Århus, Danmark
“Contact Theatrefestival”,Torun, Polen
“MOT – International Theatre Festival” Theatre of Nationalities, Skopje, Makedonia
1994 "7 AGAINST Thebe" (Performance)
"Aksjon Sarajevo" at Det Norske Teatret, Oslo, Norway
BIT Teatergarasjen, Bergen, Norway
Artist Palace, Vilnius, Lithuania
1993 "FRIDAY 15 OCTOBER”. (Performance)
Black Box Theatre, Oslo, Norway
BIT Teatergarasjen, Bergen, Norway
Theatre Podewil, Berlin, Germany
“Theatre en Mai”, Dijon, France
1991-93 "THURSDAY 14 OCTOBER” (Performance)
Black Box Theatre, Oslo, Norway
BIT Teatergarasjen, Bergen, Norway
Theatre Podewil, Berlin, Germany
Found. Gulbenkian, Lisboa, Portugal
1990 “WEDNESDAY 13 OCTOBER” (Performance)
Black Box Theatre, Oslo, Norway
Nationale Scene /BIT Teatergarasjen, Bergen, Norway
“Moving in November” Vanha, Helsinki, Finland
“Theatre en Mai”, Dijon, France
“Festival Internacional de Teatro” Theatro Municipal Miguel de Cervantes, Malaga, Spain
“IX Festival International de Teatro”, Granada, Spain
1989 “THE BATH HOUSE” (Performance)
Site-specific outdoor performance Oslo, Norway
1989 The book "Badehuset" (Text by Cecilie Løveid. published by Gyldendal Forlag, spring 1990)
1988 “ZANZIBAR” (Performance in Circus-tent)
Touring around Norway
1987 “TIL ELISE” (Performance) Oslo + Stockholm.
Site-specific performance shown outdoors
1987 “TORING PROJECT IN CIRCUS TENT” (Performance)
Touring Norway, Sweden, Denmark
1986 “TORING PROJECT IN CIRCUS TENT” (Performance)
Touring Norway, Sweden, Denmark