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PERFORMANCES
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
 


Private collection (2002)

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drawing by Heiko Gölzer

In Private collection I enter the world of objects. Everyday objects and the human body are being handled in time and space, proposing a simultaneous subject/ objectification. I am interested in the nature of things, such as gravitation, weight, balance, stability, shape, and volume, and how we organise things which by classifying, collecting, and order relates the object in time and space. The sincerity of an object, and its chameleon like quality brings about transformation and disappearance. I try to explore my own capacities of presence/ absence and transformation, and expand the world of objects by entering inside.

created and performed by: Mette Edvardsen (2002)
artistic assistance: Philippe Beloul
production: Athome
supported by: Norsk Kulturråd, Fond for Lyd og Bilde, Norwegian Ministery of Foreign Affairs
with friendly support for P5 by: Stuk/ Leuven, Vooruit/ Gent and Podewil/ Berlin


PERFORMANCES:
Idiorhytmias, MACBA (Barcelona) 3 May 2018
Retrospektiv, Black Box teater (Oslo) 1, 5 October 2015
Video dance, Thessaloniki Film Festival (Athens) 23 May 2007
Pursuit of Happiness! Kunst in Leidsche Rijn (Utrecht) 22 October 2005
In between, Kulturhus Århus, Svalegangen (Århus) 19 May 2005
Theatre now! Kiasma Theatre (Helsinki) 12 May 2005
Kaaitheaterstudio’s (Brussels) 4, 5, 6 November 2004
La Batie, Theatre du Grutli (Geneve) 2, 3 September 2004
Black Box teater (Oslo) 27, 28, 29, 30 May 2004
Panacea, Dansens Hus (Stockholm) 19 March 2004
Living room, Raum, Xing (Bologna) 5 February 2004
Re:motion, TOU Scene (Stavanger) 16 October 2003
Meteor, BIT (Bergen) 14, 15 October 2003
CAPITALS, Gulbenkian Foundation (Lisboa) 17, 18 September 2003
Procesos coreograficos, La Casa Encendida (Madrid) 27, 29 June 2003
Messagesalon (Zurich) 13 October 2002
Nadine - Plateau (Brussels) 15 September 2002 - premiere
Theaterhaus Mitte (Berlin) 18 August 2002 - preview


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photo by Ilse Joliet