Scenography as Symbiosis

Each student worked with a site in their current geographical environment, interior or exterior, private or public, or in-between. The workshop was divided into four phases: Scouting, Listening, Measuring and Tuning. Each phase involved specific methods and tasks through a variety of mediums chosen by the students. With a basic understanding of scenography as describing environment, the participants explored different ways of describing environments through our imposed online conditions. 

A choreographic and onomatopoeic journey through a textural landscape 

The idea of using onomatopoeia came from a task of writing a list of things (actors/objects) from the site. Japanese language and culture have a unique richness of onomatopoeia, so I subconsciously used them in my list. 

Another idea of exploring textures barefoot came from a task of making a plan drawing that represented my movements on the site. 

I made the video as one sequence, because I wanted it to have continuity, so the spectator can feel part of the journey 

The Gallery Archive is an archive of known human people, by unknown human people. The work consists of the phenomena of interactive and anti-interactive activities that has shaped the site.

What you will see now in the first part, is gathered, after the action of collecting, gathering and leaving behind, done by unknown others. It’s a composition of post-interactive and anti-interactive behavior. It´s an archive of a phenomena, an anthropic tendency, the conscious/unconscious dialogue with our surroundings, our need to create, leaving ourselves behind, as well as random placement of our belongings. It is a portrait of what unknown others value and not, and what they leave behind.

The second part is an anthropocentrically focused interview with an actor from the site. 

As you will see, all of this makes up for the Gallery at Gressvik, Fredrikstad, which we discovered during the pandemic spring of 2020. 

The gallery is open for anyone who would like to visit the gallery. And it might be that this meeting will generate other artworks, through the eyes of those visiting. 

In my project I wanted to focus on all the different sounds of the city coming together in my small backyard in Oslo. I spent a lot of time observing my site; listening, noticing directions and sources, mapping the sounds and their changes throughout the day, sizes, volumes and details, both distinguishing them as well as letting them all blend together. 

I wanted to work with this soundscape without recording it, and decided to explore how I, through visualisation and text, could represent sensing it.