louder: New driftwood visions from Verdensteatret's picnic at the roadside. Photos from the production.

louder premiered at Black Box Theatre, Oslo, 6/10 as a part of the ULTIMA, Oslo Contemporary Music Festival
and the Oslo Contemporary Stage Festival organized by the National Theatre in Norway.

Verdensteatret was presented with two major installation works at Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo
from 26. October to 02. December.

Verdensteatret has currently two works on schedule, the performance louder
and the electro-mechanical installation "Fortellerorkesteret" ("The Telling Orchestra").

Your next chance to experience louder is during Festspillene i Bergen at BiT, Bergen, Norway, 22-25/05 2008.

louder will be shown at different venues in USA during autumn 2008 such as
Philadelphia Live Arts Festival, 11-13/09 2007, PS122, 25-28/09 and EMPAC, Troy, N.Y, 4-5/10.

In June 2008 "Fortellerorkesteret" will be presented in Beijing at NAMOC,
The National Art Museum of China, as a part of the exhibition Synthetic Times.
Verdensteatret at NAMOC is supported by OCA, Office for Contemporary Art Norway and Arts Council Norway.

louder is based on a journey to Vietnam undertaken by Verdensteatret in 2007.

"Fortellerorkesteret" started out as a further devellopment of one part of the performance
"Concert for Greenland" and has turned into a fully automized installation.
Moving objects, sound, video, light . No humans involved.
The performance "Concert for Greenland" was based on a journey to Greenland undertaken by Verdensteatret in 2003.

Flotsam of the Future, a recent text on Verdensteatret by Jon Refsdal Moe.
English version here, norwegian version here.

VERDENSTEATRET are artists from different art-fields who work
together and make stageproductions and other art-related projects.
The projects of the group is a collaborative process bridging the gap
between artistic borders. The works is shown in many different contexts
and art-venues, both in Norway and abroad.

VERDENSTEATRET is based in Oslo, Norway, and was founded in 1986.

VERDENSTEATRET is lead by Lisbeth J. Bodd and Asle Nilsen.

VERDENSTEATRET is supported by Art Council Norway.

FOR MORE IMFORMATION, CONTACT US:

Telephone/Fax ++47 22 35 79 49

Mobil Phone: ++47 97041591

E-mail: lisbethb@powertech.no

Postal adress: Verdensteatret, Marselisgt 27, 0551 OSLO, NORWAY

C.V. Verdensteatret here.

louder

louder is a massive orchestra-piece for wire, kanoi & megaphones.

A telling orchestra is rigged on a rusty wire and a tidal wave of pictures and sounds
is thrown at us by a machine so fragile that it is in constant danger of short-circuiting.
Among a pile of megaphones that hurl sound in all directions, and a knot of wires so
stretched that they may break at any moment, we glimpse people. People who are trying
to interact with this landscape, tugging at strings that are everywhere in the room.
The strings hanging from the ceiling form the stage for a mass of figures. A mechanical
puppet play takes place here - over the heads of the human figures. louder is a storytelling
orchestra that hangs by a rusty wire and narrates a multitude of tales through sound and images.
Tales from a distant past, tales from our time, about wars, river, the theatre, the nation,
music, nature, technology, the journey and about exile. In the midst of this throng,
we find a heart of darkness - a long, black barge on the open sea, radiating coldness and stories.

Read reviews in english here. Look at some photos from the production here.

"FORTELLERORKESTERET"

"FORTELLERORKESTERET" is a room-installation. An electro-mechanical abstract theatre.
A construction that function as audiovisual "animation-machine"
where images, sculptors,sound and video is deeply integrated into each other
and which hopefully result in a musical composition of stories and images.
By use of different motors, robotics and custom software the whole construction is self-running.
The technological tools together with the more mechanical instruments at use make up an ensemble
wich become directly creative, live in the construction.
The installation can be viewed as a machine, as one complex autonomus instrument,
or as a whole orchestra with many voices and tunes, many shapes and many stories.

Fortellerorkesteret is made by : Asle Nilsen, Håkon Lindbäck, Piotr Pajchel, Lisbeth J. Bodd, Rune Madsen, Christian Blom.
Other artists involved: H.C. Gilje, Trond Lossius.