Asle Nilsen (born 1958. Asker, Norway)
Asle Nilsen works as a visual artist within painting, installation and multimedia. Asle graduated from The Academy of Fine Arts in Oslo in 1984 and he has had several solo exhibitions since 1990.
Asle is the artistic leader in Verdensteatret and he is involved in all artistic aspects of the projects in the group and has participated in all the productions of Verdensteatret since 1986.
Torgrim Torve (born 1978. Hamar, Norway)
Torgrim Torve is educated from The Oslo National Academy of the Arts (2006 - 2011). Torve is a musician and visual artist who works mainly with sculptures and larger installations. He makes compositions and installations out of materials that has a purpose, like isolation, pallets and other "hidden" materials that inhabits no obvious beautifying designs in search of a visual, constructional logic. Torve has done extensive touring all over Europe from 2005 with his outfit Dunderbeist as the lead singer, songwriter and main composer. Torve has had several solo exhibitions and participated in numerous group exhibitions in Norway since 2007. He is a member of the artistic board since 2019.
Torgrim has participated in the following productions: Bridge over Mud (2014), HANNAH (2017), Trust me tomorrow (2020), Enter ghost, exit ghost, re-enter ghost (2022) and α ζ (2023)
Janne Kruse (born 1979. Aarhus, Denmark)
Janne Kruse is a visual artist graduated from Oslo National Academy of the Arts and Central Academy of Fine Art in Beijing. She lives and works in Oslo. Her work is often travel-based, and it examines spatial and linguistic potentials in the meeting between the human body and the external world. Her expression ranges wide: from sculptural works, printmaking and photography to film, video and performances in collaborative constellations. Many of Kruse's works involve movement and deal with time-related investigations and the fragmented nature of memory. In Verdensteatret Janne works mostly with sculpture, choreography and scenography and as performer on stage. She is a member of the artistic board since 2019.
Janne has participated in the following productions: And All the Questionmarks Started to Sing (2010), Bridge over Mud (2014), HANNAH (2017), Trust me tomorrow (2020), Enter ghost, exit ghost, re-enter ghost (2022) and α ζ (2023)
Ali Djabbary (born 1965. Mashad, Iran)
Ali Djabbary is a performance artist and a visual artist. In Verdensteatret he works as a performer and a light and stage technician. He is educated from Strykejernet visual art school, Nordic Black Theatre School and Vincent Lunges Art Institute. Ali also works with Nordic Black Theatre in Oslo.
Ali has participated in the following productions: TSALAL (2003), Concert for Greenland (2004), The Telling Orchestra (2006), LOUDER (2007), And All the Questionmarks Started to Sing (2010), Bridge over Mud (2014), HANNAH (2017), Trust me tomorrow (2020) and α ζ (2023)
Annike Flo
Annike Flo works cross disciplinary between art, scenography and costume. Inspired by the anthropocene as a concept her work broadly investigates what it means to create in our current era, producing work based around giving up “human” space and decentering the human. By including other beings who do their own worlding in staged spatial events, together with a human audience and herself, her work plays with the fusing of reality and performance to conjure new realities. Her projects are often inspired by research, materials and methods from both the humanities and life sciences which she mixes with materials such as textiles and ceramics. Annike often collaborates with researchers and practitioners from other fields such as biology and ecology.
Annike is currently artist in residence at Anthropogenic soils, University of Oslo, as well as working with Verdensteateret and all female black metal trio Witch Club Satan. She has previously exhibited at Galleri Format, Meta.Morf and Atelier Nord, and ran Norwegian BioArt Arena, a new project by Vitenparken Ås, from 2018 to 2021. As a scenographer and costume designer she has worked with Verdensteateret, Witch Club Satan, Punch Drunk, Secret Cinema, Another and Love magazines, MiuMiu and more. Annike holds a MA in scenography at Norwegian Theatre Academy, and a BA in Costume for Performance at London college of fashion, University of the Arts London.
Espen Sommer Eide (born 1972. Tromsø, Norway)
Espen Sommer Eide is a composer and artist based in Bergen, Norway. Using music and sound as both method and medium, his artistic practice involves long-term engagement with specific landscapes, archives, languages and rhythms, with an experimental approach to local and embodied knowledge. In addition to installation and performances, he has been a prominent representative of experimental electronic music from Norway, with main projects Alog and Phonophani, and a string of releases on the labels Rune Grammofon, FatCat and Hubro.
Espen has participated in the following productions: And All the Questionmarks Started to Sing (2010), Bridge over Mud (2014), Trust me tomorrow (2020), Enter ghost, exit ghost, re-enter ghost (2022) and α ζ (2023)
Elise Macmillan (born 1988. California, US)
Elise Macmillan is a violinist and multimedia artist based in Oslo. She moved from the US to Telemark in 2015 to play Hardanger Fiddle and has composed music for wandering choir, string ensemble, percussionists, and a song cycle on endless loop tape. Her projects range from sculptural installations to sound works accessible as a telephone hotline. She graduated from Stanford University and was recently a guest composer at EMS Elektronmusikstudion, Stockholm.
Martin Taxt (born 1981. Trondheim, Norway)
Martin Taxt holds a bachelor degree in performing arts from the Academy of Music in Oslo and CNSM in Paris (2006). Since then he has established himself in the international experimental music scene as a highly inventive tuba player. His recent activities includes work with the trios Microtub and Muddersten, both with severeal releases on the record label SOFA, which he’s been running since 2010 and the duo collaboration with Toshimaru Nakamura, with albums released on Monotype Records and Ftarri. With these projects and other past activites he has toured all over Europe, Russia, Japan, China, USA, Canada and Mexico. He is currently writing a master thesis on ‘music and architecture’ at the Academy of Music in Oslo.
Martin has participated in the following productions: Bridge over Mud (2014), HANNAH (2017) and Trust me tomorrow (2020)