Mette Edvardsen
Coreographer and performer. Although some of her works explore other media or other formats, such as video, books and writing, her interest is always in their relationship to the performing arts as a practice and a situation. She presents her work internationally via retrospectives at the Black Box theatre in Oslo and MACBA in Barcelona, among the others. Her project Time has fallen alseep in the afternoon sunshine is ongoing since 2010, and has its base now at the headquarters of osloBIENNALEN FIRST EDITION 2019 – 2024 in Oslo.
The performance Time has fallen asleep in the afternoon sunshine explores the sensitive space between stage and language, body and memory.
A group of artists memorises a text and, together, forms a collection of living books. Spectators, one by one, can choose a title and the place where they wish to listen, and are then guided by a performer through the space around the Little Fun Palace caravan, in the alpine pasture area of Viote. With naturalness and simplicity, the living books remind us that learning a text by heart is an act of love that mobilises both memory and forgetting. It is the direct transmission of this process that makes the encounter so extraordinary.
The prescribed books were Muna Mussie and Isadora Angelini.
The performance was part of the Public Programme of the first edition of the Nomadic School, but due to adverse weather conditions it was experienced only by the School participants and the OHT team.
