Agency of Things
Walking, Talking Minerals
Duration: 11 days from 8-18 June 2023
17 bodies, tools and sand
Holešovice Market, Prague, Czech Republic
Walking, Talking Minerals explores the relationship between humans and their surroundings - a landscape that we are constantly altering and dominating. The work manifested at PQ23 as transforming tableaus of useless labor through 17 bodies, tools and local materials in a 11 day duration. The work is part of a performative macro scenography labored by bodies and tools guided by a score: Construct - Deconstruct - Compile - Scatter - Construct - Deconstruct - Compile - Scatter -
The on-going macro scenography consists of independent site & material specific adaptations: WTM#01, WTM#02 and WTM#03 developed and performed between Palmera Gallery in Bergen, Norwegian Theatre Academy in Fredrikstad, Norway and Overgaden in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Walking, Talking Minerals was labored by performing scenographers, students from the Norwegian Theatre Academy and performers exploring how to ‘be’ in a scenographic performance context.
Artist Olga Regitze Dyrløv Høegh
Sound Marc Hasselbalch
Performing scenographers and students from the Norwegian Theatre Academy: Irina Komissarova, Lisa Birkenbach, Sólveig Ylva Dagsdóttir, Caroline Bang, Harry Osborn Wiström, Johan Oskar Rasmussen Sterner, Kelly-Ann La Juenesse, Leila Tóth, Milla Magndahl, Sara Midtskogen Haave, Soumi Saha, Sooryeo Kim and Vega Drake Carlsson from Kunsthøgskolen in Oslo
Additional performances by Clara Randum, Isak Myrberg Dahle, Olga Regitze Dyrløv Høegh and Regina Rex
Scenography intern Santiago Gonzalez
Curator Karen Kipphoff
Producer Christian Bermudez
Analogue photos by Amanda Bødker
of performer Clara Randum
Media
https://www.hiof.no/nta/english/
https://pq.cz/pq-2023-info/projects-2023/student-exhibition-pq/norway-wtm-walking-talking-minerals/
The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2023/jun/12/prague-quadrennial-stages-design-spectacular-with-a-giant-cat-tiny-flats-and-a-16-legged-theatre