'Livre d'images sans images' After talk with Mette Edvardsen and Chrysa Parkinson

October 29 at 4 pm in the foyer.
After the performance 'Livre d'images sans images' on Sunday the 29th of October, choreographer Mette Edvardsen are having a conversation about the work with professor Chrysa Parkinson.

Mette Edvardsen’s work is situated within the performing arts field as a choreographer and performer. Although some of her works explore other media or other formats, such as video, books and writing, her interest always lies in these materials’ relationship to the performing arts as a practice and a situation. Since 1994, Edvardsen has worked as a dancer and performer for a number of companies and projects and began developing her own work in 2002. Edvardsen 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 theatre in Oslo in 2015, and the focus programme Idiorritmias at MACBA in Barcelona in 2018. Edvardsen’s 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, São Paulo Biennale 2021. Mette Edvardsen is structurally supported by Norsk Kulturråd (2022 - 2026), She presented works at Amant in New York in 2022, including a performative exhibition ‘Suppose a Room’. She has developed a project in residence at Les Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers in Paris 2022/ 2023. Edvardsen is currently finalising her research as a PhD candidate at Oslo National Academy of the Arts.

Chrysa Parkinson identifies as a dancer. She comes from North American and Northern European dance communities where she has been working for thirty years as a performer. Her artistic inscriptions include the proscenium stage, queer communities, and somatic practices – the combination of which manifest as a deep respect for both poetry and camp, a queasy relation to categories, and an ongoing pleasure in experimentation. Since 2011, Chrysa has been working as a Professor of Dance at Stockholm University of the Arts (SKH), where she has been directing the New Performative Practices Master education and is now Head of Subject for Dance. Her research focuses on how dance situates itself in practitioners’ lives and how performers, in turn, author, dismantle and reconstitute worlds.