friday 20 april – 10 pm
Ex GAM
Mette Edvardsen (N/B)
oslo
performance
In oslo, the Norwegian capital and an anagram of ‘solo’, Mette Edvardsen once again plays with language, time and space. Over the past ten years, she has created a coherent series of performances, profound and witty, sober and rich in detail, playing with presence and absence, transformation and disappearance. In the trilogy Black (2011), No Title (2014) and We to be (2015) she explored the possibilities and limits of language in both real and imagined space. In this new piece the writing extends into the whole space, multiplying the voices, the actions, the moments, the imaginations – the things and the beings. oslo is a highly personal and collective experience in one.
Mette Edvardsen, norwegian artist living in Brussels and Oslo. Her work is situated within the performing arts field as a choreographer and performer. Although some of her works explore other media and formats, such as video, books and writing, her interest is always in their relationship to the performing arts as a practice and a situation. With a base in Brussels since 1996 she has worked for several years as a dancer and performer for a number of companies and projects. Since 2002 she develops her own work and presents her performances internationally. Productions of hers include the long-term project Time has fallen asleep in the afternoon sunshine based on learning by heart as a practice. The project has been performed in 28 cities around the world, producing an international moving and living library of 68 book titles in various languages. She is currently a research fellow at Oslo Arts Academy.
www.metteedvardsen.be
created and performed by Mette Edvardsen
in collaboration with Mari Matre Larsen et al.
music composed by Matteo Fargion
light design Bruno Pocheron
thanks to Coro Arcanto
production assistant Maya Wilsens
production Mette Edvardsen/Athome, Manyone vzw
co-production Kaaitheater (Brussels), BUDA (Kortrijk), Black Box Teater (Oslo),
Teaterhuset Avant Garden (Trondheim), BIT – Teatergarasjen (Bergen), Skogen (Gothenburg)
supported by Norsk Kulturråd, Norwegian Artistic Research Program – Oslo National Academy of the Arts, apap network