Mette Edvardsen
oslo
Photo: Antero Hein
Th 21.2.2019, 20:00-21:00, MDT
Fr 22.2.2019, 20:00-21:00, MDT
With "oslo" Mette Edvardsen continue the process of writing that she has developed in previous works. In the trilogy "Black" (2011), "No Title" (2014) and "We to be" (2015), Edvardsen 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" she aims 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.
On 21st February we are celebrating the beginning of this season at MDT in our foyer after the performance. Karolina Oxelväg will be showing some videowork.
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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.
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Production
Mette Edvardsen/ Athome, Manyone.
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-Performing Europe 2020 – a project co-founded by Creative Europe. Programme of the European Union.
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