VERDENSTEATRET is a group of artists from different art-fields who work together and make live-art and other art projects.

Verdensteatret  is based in Oslo, Norway. The artistic leaders are Lisbeth J. Bodd and Asle Nilsen.

 

 

The productions of Verdensteatret is a result of a collaborative

process where different medias are deeply merged into each other.

 

 

The works has over the last years become more and more multi-disciplinary.

One of the characteristics is an experimental use of new technology in visual and audio medias

in a close dialogue with more traditional and historic tools of artistic expression.

"SEEING THE SOUND, LISTENING TO THE IMAGES"

Today we see our works as a kind of orchestral works, or as space-related musical compositions.

This intermedial characteristic of the works makes it natural to show them in various contexts,

such as theatre/stage rooms, art-museums/galleries, contemporary music-festivals, etc.

 

Several of the productions are co-produced  with  Black Box Theatre, Bit Teatretgarasjen. 

Verdensteatret  is supported by Arts Council Norway and other official art-foundations in Norway.

 

 

ARTISTIC WORK:

2008

 

 "FORTELLERORKESTERET" ("The Telling Orchestra") (installation)

Namoc, Beijijng

 

louder (performance)

BiT, Bergen

 

 

 

2007

 

louder (performance)

Black Box Theatre, Oslo

 

 "FORTELLERORKESTERET" ("The Telling Orchestra") (installation) + Untitled installation

Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo

2006

 

 "CONCERT FOR GREENLAND" (performance/concert/installation)

 steirischer herbst festival , Graz, Austria -06

De Singel, Antwerpen, Belgium -06

TRAFO House of Contemporary Art, Budapest, Hungary -06

 

 "FORTELLERORKESTERET" ("The Telling Orchestra") (installation)

steirischer herbst festival . Graz, Austria -06

 

 

2005

 "FORTELLERORKESTERET" ("The Telling Orchestra") (installation)

Electro-mechanical installation.  (animation-machine)

Exhibited: TOU Scene, Stavanger, Norway

 

 

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

 

(2003    Awarded "The Telenor Cultural Prize 2003")

 

 

2003          

"MANDALA" (performance/installation)

BIT Teatergarasjen, Bergen, Norway

 

 

2001-2003 

"TSALAL"  (performance/concert/installation)

Shown: The Annual Exhibition for Visual Art, Oslo, Norway

Black Box Theatre, Oslo, Norway

AvantGarden, Trondheim, Norway

European Digital Stage Art Festival, rhus, 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

"RƒGLA"  (Performance)

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 RƒGLA-room" (installation)

Interactive installation at "Oslo Open" Oslo, Norway

 

(1999    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, Gšteborg, 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" ,Svalgangen Theatre, rhus, 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

Lillehammer, 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

Banken, Lillehamer, Norway

Folken, Stavanger, Norway     

Sykkelfabrikken, Sandnes, 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 Sircus-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

 

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