Verdensteatret is an art group based in Oslo.
The group was founded in 1986.
The group consist of artists from many different artistic professions
making installations, performance art, concerts and other art related works.
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 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.
The works are presented widely international.
Verdensteatret is supported by Arts Council Norway and other official art-foundations in Norway.
ARTISTIC WORKS
2011
And All the Questionmarks Started to Sing
Live performance/installation.
Festival Boreales. Comédie de Caen -Centre Dramatique National de Normandie
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And All the Questionmarks Started to Sing
Installation / live performance.
Herzliya Biennial for Contemporary Art. Herzliya, Israel.
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And All the Questionmarks Started to Sing
Live performance/installation.
Avant Garden, Trondheim
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The Telling Orchestra
Exhibition of installation.
PQ11. Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space
Prague, Czech Republic
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And All the Questionmarks Started to Sing
Live performance/installation.
FABBRICA EUROPA, Florence, Italy
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And All the Questionmarks Started to Sing
Live performance/installation.
Future Perfect / Co-presented with DTW and PS 122, New York City.
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And All the Questionmarks Started to Sing
Live performance/installation.
EMPAC, Troy. USA.
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And All the Questionmarks Started to Sing
Live performance/installation.
Festival Mois Multi, Quebec, Canada
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The Telling Orchestra
Exhibition of installation.
Palais des beaux Arts. (BOZAR).
Brussels, Belgium.
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2010
And All the Questionmarks Started to Sing
(Exhibition of electromechanical installation + live performance)
Shanghai Biennale 2010.
Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China
“Telling Orchestras and Funeral Machines”
(Exhibition of 2 electro-mechanical installations)
Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangchou, China.
“And All the Questionmarks Started to Sing”
Installation /live performance
Theater der Welt, 2010.
Venue: PACT Zollverein, Essen, Germany.
And All the Questionmarks Started to Sing
Live performance/installation.
Ultima festival of Contemporary Music
Venue: Black Box Theatre, Oslo, Norway
And All the Questionmarks Started to Sing
Live performance/installation.
BIT Teatergarasjen, Bergen. (Co-production partner).
And All the Questionmarks Started to Sing
Live performance/installation.
Avant Art Festival 2010
Venue: Impart Arts Center. Wroclaw, Poland.
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2009.
“LOUDER”
Performance/concert
Festival Intercity
Firenze, Italy.
2008.
“The Telling Orchestra”
Installation
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 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 (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.
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 2005” 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.
Shown: 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
Co-produced with BAKTRUPPEN.
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
1994 "P.I.G. PROJECT IN THE OLD CITY OF OSLO"
“ Dag for Dag” Venue: Borgen
Project who involved 100 artist from different art field and from Scandinavia / Europe.
Verdensteatret produced a compendium and video which was made and shown in the 14 days it lasted.
It was built on interviews made of both the artist working in Pig and the citizens of the old city.
Also shown as part of an exhibition in UKS autumn 1994.
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