"CONCERT FOR GREENLAND"
THAT CORPSE YOU PLANTED LAST YEAR IN YOUR GARDEN, HAS IT BEGAN TO SPROUT,WILL
IT BLOOM THIS YEAR.
"CONCERT FOR GREENLAND" is an audio-visual composition where rusty
mechanics meet new technology on the backside of a "video-shadow-theatre"
on Greenland. .
Its an "any media necessary –performance”, where
visual art, sound, video, installation, text and theatre try to unite into
one composition.
Greenland is the main focus point of this work. The material is based on travels
and research around the Northwest-Atlantic countries from August till November
–03. (Greenland, Iceland, Faeroe Islands, Norway).
In the working process in Oslo all the material collected on these trips went
into a deeper artistic process that in the end "sweated out" a concentrate.
Our longest stay was in Greenland and it made a very deep impression on us.
The ambivalence we often felt during our stay there has through the process
transformed into a deep fascination.
The subconscious experience of our travels there
is rebuilt through dreams and our unreliable memory
and resulted in these artistic transformations.
“Concert for Greenland” is a work in honor of Greenland.
THAT CORPSE YOU PLANTED LAST YEAR IN YOUR GARDEN, HAS IT BEGAN TO SPROUT,WILL
IT BLOOM THIS YEAR.
"CONCERT FOR GREENLAND" is an audio-visual composition where rusty
mechanics meet new technology on the backside of a "video-shadow-theatre"
on Greenland. .
Its an "any media necessary –performance”, where
visual art, sound, video, installation, text and theatre try to unite into
one composition.
Greenland is the main focus point of this work. The material is based on travels
and research around the Northwest-Atlantic countries from August till November
–03. (Greenland, Iceland, Faeroe Islands, Norway).
In the working process in Oslo all the material collected on these trips went
into a deeper artistic process that in the end "sweated out" a concentrate.
Our longest stay was in Greenland and it made a very deep impression on us.
The ambivalence we often felt during our stay there has through the process
transformed into a deep fascination.
The subconscious experience of our travels there
is rebuilt through dreams and our unreliable memory
and resulted in these artistic transformations.
“Concert for Greenland” is a work in honor of Greenland.
Artists involved in "Concert for Greenland" are:
Lisbeth J. Bodd. Asle Nilsen. Håkon Lindbäck. Piotr Pajchel.
Ali Djabbary. Per Flink Basse. Corinne Campos.Øyvind B. Lyse.
Bergmund W. Skaslien. Erik Balke.Lars Øyno. Morten Pettersen.
Petter Steen. Trond Lossius.Kenneth Korstad Langaås.
Reinert Mithassel. Kjeld Kemp. Christian Blom. Jannicke Lie.
(On tour: 12 persons.)
"Concert for Greenland" is co-produced by Black-Box Theatre, Oslo,
and supported by Nordisk Kulturfond, Fond for Lyd og Bilde and Fond for utøvende
Kunstnere.
Verdensteatret is supported by Norsk Kulturråd.
"Concert for Greenland" has been shown at the following venues:
Trafo House of Contemporary Art, Budapest, Hungary, -06
de Singel Antwerpen, Belgium, -06
steirischer herbst festival -06, Graz, Austria , -06 (including "Fortellerorkesteret" at Kunsthaus Graz )
PS 122 Festival NO5 New York City. USA -05
Tou Scene Stavanger, Norway. (also first exhibition of the installation "Fortellerorkesteret") -05
The International Theatre Festival Divadelna Nitra Nitra, Slovakia -05
Operahøgskolen, KHIO. Operascenen Oslo, Norway -05
Stamsund Internasjonale Teaterfestival Stamsund, Lofoten.Norway -05
Perfect performance Stockholm, Sweden - 04
Teaterhuset avantgarden venue: Trondheim kunstmuseum Trondheim, Norway -04
DETOX venue: BIT Bergen, Norway -04
Ultima Oslo Contemporary Music Festival Oslo, Norway -04
Black Box Theatre Oslo, Norway -04
Read reviews in english here, and in norwegian
here. See photos here.
More more information on "Concert for Greenland" here
.