Mette Edvardsen
Livre d'images sans images
Photo: Bea Borgers.
Livre d'images sans images is performed in English
Sa 28.10.2023, 20:00-21:00, MDT
Su 29.10.2023, 15:00-16:00, MDT
Taking cue from a story of the same name about a conversation between the Moon and a painter, Mette Edvardsen and her daughter Iben Edvardsen create a conceptually rich and delicate work together, "Livre d'images sans images".
"Livre d'images sans images", which, literally translated means ‘picture book without pictures’, borrows its title from a book by H.C. Andesen, also referred to as The Moon Chronicler. The book follows a conversation between a painter and the Moon, whereby the Moon describes what she sees on her journey around the world each evening, and invites the painter to paint what she describes. This conversation, between moon and artist, became the starting point for choreographer Mette Edvardsen and her daughter Iben Edvardsen to create a work together.
Using the weather report as dramaturgy, Mette and Iben have created and collected materials from their conversations: recordings, text, voice, drawings, references, found images, loose connections, inspirations and imaginations, in the order they came to them. These materials serve both as sources and traces, material and support for new imaginations or events to come.
Interdisciplinary in nature, in "Livre d'images sans images", language is a material, a way to address imagination through means other than the visual. To further emphasis and explore this, the work comes in three different media formats: vinyl, paper and a live performance. All three formats will be presented at MDT.
Mette Edvardsen
The work of Mette Edvardsen (b. 1970 is situated within the performing arts field as a choreographer and performer. Although some of her works explore other media or formats, such as video, books, and writing, her interest is always in their relationship to the performing arts as a practice and a situation.
Since 1994, Mette Edvardsen has worked as a dancer and performer for a number of companies and projects, and has been developing her own work since 2002. She presents her works internationally and continues to develop projects with other artists, both as a collaborator and as a performer.
A retrospective of her work was presented at Black Box teater in Oslo in 2015 and the focus program Idiorritmias at MACBA in Barcelona in 2018. Her project, Time has fallen asleep in the afternoon sunshine, has been ongoing since 2010, presented twice at Kunstenfestivaldesarts in Brussels in 2013 & 2017, Sydney Biennale in 2016, Index Foundation in Stockholm in 2019, Oslobiennalen First Edition in 2019-2020, Trust & Confusion at Tai Kwun Arts in Hong Kong in 2021, and Sao Paulo Biennale 2021. She presented works and a performative exhibition, Suppose a Room at Amant in New York in 2022, and developed a project in long-term residency at Les Laboratoires d'Aubervilliers in Paris 2022/2023.
Mette Edvardsen is structurally supported by Norsk Kulturråd (2022-2026). She is finalizing her research as a Ph.D. candidate at the Department of Dance at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts.
Created and performed by
Light and Technical Support
Bruno Pocheron
Vinyl
Xing, XONG collection XX10 (2023)
Graphic Design
Michaël Bussaer
Production
Mette Edvardsen/Athome
Residency support
Black Box teater (Oslo) with technical support by Agnar Ribe
Co-production
Kaaitheater (Brussels), BUDA (Kortrijk), Black Box teater (Oslo), centre chorégraphique national de Caen in Normandie (Caen)
Supported by
Norsk Kulturråd
Title
From H.C. Andersen’s Billedbog uden billeder
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