2017

HANNAH

A hybrid between concert, performance and installation, where the whole
space is played as one polyphonic audiovisual instrument.

HANNAH (55 min, 2017) is a hybrid between concert, performance and installation in which the whole space is played as one polyphonic audiovisual instrument. It is an elaborate spatial composition that provokes a state of absorption in an immersive audiovisual space. Inspired by the gradual unfolding of geological time, the material acts as a kind of sedimentation process, drawing attention to gentle transformations and the way physical objects can affect their surroundings over extremely long time spans. From a human perspective, the material unfolds from fixed attention towards exhaustion – in the act of observing slow changes.

In HANNAH Verdensteatret is exploring ideas about geological time and attention fatigue used as an observatory. In November 2016 Verdensteatret went on a research journey to the Mekong Delta in Vietnam, the same destination as they had 10 years earlier. With this research the artist collective has for the first time chosen to repeat a journey and gather material from somewhere they have already been. Along this journey they have questioned the nature of repetition and if repetition is at all possible. Questions that reveal doubt as a gravitational center for our orientation. Repetition points forward in time and is an integral part of what is seen and what is done.

The present is a memory in motion. At the same time, there has never been so much past as right now.

A production from Verdensteatret is a glimpse of the present, a state of transitions and passages through phenomenons.

HANNAH had its world premiere in the program of Ultima Oslo Contemporary Music Festival in Oslo, September 2017 at Henie Onstad Kunstsenter in Oslo. The performance will tour internationally in 2019

By and with: Asle Nilsen, Piotr Pajchel, Eirik Blekesaune, Torgrim Torve, Niklas Adam, Janne Kruse, Ali Djabbary, Martin Taxt, Elisabeth Carmen Gmeiner, HC Gilje, Magnus Bugge and Laurent Ravot

Thanks to: Espen Sommer Eide, Sofia Jernberg and Magnie Finnsdatter Nilsen

Co-produced by Ultima Oslo Contemporary Music Festival, Henie Onstad Kunstsenter and Black Box Teater