Friday, October 14
19:30 at Litteraturhuset in Fredrikstad:
Strangers – lecture performance
Saturday, October 15
11:00 and 13:00 in Fredrikstad city center:
Parallel Life – interactive performance in the streets of the city using the phone and the imagination
The two performances are not directly connected, you are welcome to attend one of them or both.
Strangers
Friday, October 14, 2022
19:30 at Litteraturhuset in Fredrikstad
Presented by Rufino Henriquez, Edit Kaldor and Kobbe Koopman
No tickets needed; doors are open from 19:00 (duration approx. 75 minutes)
Link to map: https://g.page/Litthusfred?share
This lecture performance brings together various strands of the artistic research that Edit Kaldor has initiated and conducted in the past years, together with others. These have been investigations in different contexts into how lived experiences can be articulated in and through live performance.
We would like to share with you some of the premises and processes of these explorations, and to invite you to observe the narratives that emerge: about knowledges, situations and danger. About strangers and intimacy, about voids, desires, and dramaturgies.
Strangers is a story of many people. It’s a speculation on theatre as an unpredictable and brave space. It’s also the story of a pandemic. And of what follows.
We invite you to join us, observe and speculate along.
Developed in collaboration with Rufino Henriquez, Kobbe Koopman, Joris Favie, and all the participants of the research workshops and of the Inventory of Powerlessness project, with thanks to the NTA colleagues and students, Karmenlara Ely, Camilla Eeg-Tverbakk, Joe Kelleher, Bart Philipsen, Anne Berit Løland, Sunniva Solberg, Tore Johannes Skauen and Tim Petterson Finset-Karlsen.
Parallel Life
Saturday, October 15, 2022
11:00 and 13:00 in Fredrikstad city center
Registration needed; sign up and an individual starting location will be sent to each visitor prior to the performance (duration approx. 60-90 minutes)
Link to registration: https://nettskjema.no/a/parallel-life
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be someone else? To wake up in their skin, to see the world through their eyes? What it would be like to have lived their childhood, to have experienced sorrows and joys as they have, to dream as they do? Imagine being another person and accidentally running into yourself on the street.
Parallel Life (2021) is an interactive performance that is played for and by individual spectators on the streets of the city using their mobile phones. The performance is constructed especially for each audience member on the basis of their input. Through a conversation with what might be a friendly stranger or a bot, a profile is compiled for every participant. These profiles are then swapped, and each spectator follows the rest of the performance 'in the skin' of someone else. Someone who might be at just arm's length away and possible to bump into at any moment.
The performance uses the Telegram app on the mobile phone and it takes place in a specific location in Fredrikstad city center. In advance of the performance, each visitor needs to register for the performance and download the Telegram app. An individual starting location will be sent before the performance. Please bring a fully charged phone with mobile internet access and headphones. Your personal data will not be shared with anyone and will be deleted after the performance.
Concept and direction: Edit Kaldor made in collaboration with CyberRäuber (Berlin), Jurrien van Rheenen, Marion Tränkle, Rosa van Kollem, Kobbe Koopman, Babylon Collective, Ivo Bol, Michel Bezem, Lise Brenner, and with thanks to Machina Ex. Image: Diede van Oomen. Created in the frame of the Norwegian Artistic Research Fellowship with support by Prince Bernhard Culture Fund, Kickstart Culture Fund, Amsterdam Fund for the Arts, and the City of Amsterdam.
Edit Kaldor (H/US/B) is a theatre-maker living in Amsterdam and working internationally. In her work she explores the possibilities of digital media in the context of contemporary performance. She often collaborates with people from outside of the arts. Her pieces, which push considerably the boundaries of theatrical conventions have been presented in more than 30 countries in Europe, Asia, the Americas, and North-Africa. Kaldor has taught and lectured at (performing) art academies and universities across Europe, and has led numerous workshops at theatres and festivals. Parallel Life is a part of her artistic research project The Many and the Form at the Norwegian Theatre Academy/Østfold University College in the context of the Norwegian Artistic Fellowship Programme. She is also contributing to and together with Joe Kelleher co-editing Theatres of Powerlessness (Bloomsbury / Methuen Drama, 2023). From next year on she will be programme director of the new Master’s in Performing Arts as Critical Practice at the Malmo Theatre Academy in Sweden.
https://www.editkaldor.com/index.html
https://www.scenekunst.no/sak/nye-dramaturgier-for-en-ny-politisk-virkelighet