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Livre d'images sans images
En lys sommers usigelige smerte
Suppose a Room
Penelope sleeps
It could be that the saddest thing
     is not knowing that one is sad
Music For Lectures/ Every word
     was once an animal
oslo
I can’t quite place it
We to be
No Title
Black
Time has fallen asleep in
     the afternoon sunshine
every now and then
or else nobody will know
Opening
Time will show (detail)
Private collection
 
OTHER MEDIA
Titled
Faits divers
coffee & cigarette
Sketches
Artist in Residence
The way/ you move
Light Shade Shade
Stills
 
ARTIST'S BOOKS
The Appendixes #1–4
Livre d’images sans images (LP)
one continuous line or a thought
     that dissolves into the distance
Not Not Nothing
Time has fallen asleep in
     the afternoon sunshine
Afternoon Editions
Objects 2002 - 2015
We to be
Black
every now and then
Opening
Time will show (detail)
 
PUBLISHING HOUSE
Varamo Press
Time has fallen asleep in
     the afternoon sunshine
 


oslo (2017)

stone
photo by Mette Edvardsen 

With this new piece I continue the process of writing that I have developed in previous works. In the trilogy Black (2011), No Title (2014) and We to be (2015), I was exploring the possibilities and limits of language and how this extends into real space. The access to imagination took place through language, and the closeness to the audience developed with the writing. With oslo I aim at another way of generating presence and imagination, where not only the performer on stage is central to what is taking place. This time the writing extends into the whole theatre space, multiplying the voices, the actions, the moments, the imaginations – the things and the beings.


created and performed by: Mette Edvardsen
in collaboration with: Mari Matre Larsen et al.
music composed by: Matteo Fargion
light design: Bruno Pocheron
production assistant: Maya Wilsens
production: Mette Edvardsen/ Athome, Manyone
co-production: Kaaitheater (Brussels), BUDA (Kortrijk), Black Box teater (Oslo), Teaterhuset Avant Garden (Trondheim), BIT Teatergarasjen (Bergen), Skogen (Gothenburg), apap-Performing Europe 2020 - a project co-funded by Creative Europe Programme of the European Union
supported by: Norsk Kulturråd, Norwegian Artistic Research Program – Oslo National Academy of the Arts

oslo was nominated for the Norwegian Critics Award in the category of dance in 2017.
oslo was nominated for the Oslo Award by Natt&Dag magazine for best performance 2017.


PERFORMANCES:
ARTER (Istanbul) 15, 16 February 2020
La Mutant (Valencia) 5 July 2019
MDT (Stockholm) 21, 22 February 2019
Skogen & Statsteatern (Gothenburg) 17, 18 October 2018
Theaterszene Europa, studiobühneköln (Cologne) 24 May 2018
Idiorritmias, MACBA (Barcelona) 5 May 2018
Live Arts Week VII, Xing (Bologna) 20 April 2018
Close Encounters, Dansehallerne (Copenhagen) 17, 18 February 2018
BIT Teatergarasjen (Bergen) 26, 27 January 2018
Het Veem (Amsterdam) 6 December 2017
Reykjavik Dance Festival (Reykjavik) 15 November 2017
Espacios Ibsen (Havana, Cuba) 3 November 2017
STUK (Leuven) 25, 26 October 2017
Black Box teater (Oslo) 11, 12, 13, 14 October 2017
BUDA (Kortrijk) 7 October 2017
Bastard, Teaterhuset Avantgarden (Trondheim) 20, 21 September 2017
Stamsund Internasjonale Teaterfestival (Stamsund) 31 May 2017
PERFORMATIK, Kaaistudio’s (Brussels) 28, 29 March 2017
Oslo Internasjonale Teaterfestival, Black Box teater (Oslo) 9, 10 March 2017