Viva Voce: Ingvild Holm

Space Automatism is a research into what place and context do to content and method with place itself as the protagonist. It treats political and structural questions in a series of site-specific theatrical and object-oriented situations.

The protagonists are places like her artist-run theatre space, her office at Norwegian Theatre Academy (NTA), NTA itself, the Norwegian Artistic Research Program, her kitchen and her plastic garbage, the cabaret theatre Chat Noir in Oslo, Det Norske Teaterets scene 3, Gallery F15 and a barn, museums in the north of Sweden and the Luleå Biennial, The National Theatre in Oslo, and even Venice (and more). The protagonists come as performances, theater, visual art, text and video based on characteristics found at the specific place as well as context and situation. All works are performed at site, in a critical and playful dialogue with itself.

Read more about Ingvild's research project and see the works here.


Assessment committee:
Professor Frans Jacobi
Professor Efva Lilja
Professor Hilmar Fredriksen

Artistic director of the scenography department at Norwegian Theatre Academy, professor Serge von Arx, will lead the disputas.

The research is supported by Norwegian Artistic Research Program (NARP) and Norwegian Theatre Academy (NTA)  at Østfold University College.

Photo by Sage Canellis (from SPACE WALK, at NTA's 20th anniversary - Literaturhuset in Fredrikstad)