AUDITORIUM

In AUDITORIUM, Solveig Ylva Dagsdottir invites you to her final MA scenography research presentation and graduation production in Fredrikstad. In this work, she is working together with Anna Utermøhl Lund in Auditorium A-421 at Høgskolen I Østfold, campus Fredrikstad.Together, they explore the staging of ambiguity as a way to release the potential of the empty space. The audience is invited into a lecture-like setting that takes the context and situation of this specific space as its starting point.

The basis of her explorations concerns the hidden and repressed in the environment around us. The intent is to uncover invisible structures of power and oppression that play into our perception of space. In her research, nothingness is understood as parts of space that are not immediately perceivable to the eye and are often suppressed or overlooked when we think of what a space consists of.

To understand the potential within this emptiness or nothingness, she has been looking at how the material within the ‘nothingness’ behaves or act differently to the visible, and what it by this allow us to experience. The matter of nothingness wants to move. It isn't still and restricted to certain movements, in contrary to the visible. Drawing parallels to 'dirt theories' and ideas of taboo from Mary Douglas and Sara Ahmed, she explores whether the potential of 'dirt' and 'the empty' can be used to create scenography.

Her understanding is that the constant transformation of material—particularly the unclean or hidden—creates a spatial experience. Ambiguity provides a way to explore this transformation.

This production was part of §112 Fredrikstad by Østfold International Theatre. §112 Fredrikstad is a new art festival, which over four months will explore whether we are good ancestors. The backdrop is the Norwegian constitution's environmental paragraph, and through cultural experiences, conversations, public meetings and debate, §112 will present questions regarding climate issues to the public in a new way.

made in close collaboration with Anna Utermøhl Lund.

Consept
Solveig Ylva Dagsdottir

PERFORMED AND CO-CREATED
Anna Utermøhl Lund and Solveig Ylva Dagsdottir

Foto
Julie Hrnčířová

Artistic support and consultations
Stacey Sacks, Ingvild Holm, Óluva Heidiardóttir Tvørfoss, Adam Manthey Steen,
Karen Kipphoff and Serge von Arx, Jakob Oreddson, Karoline Amalie Severinsen

Production management
Christian Bermudez Aguilar

technical assistance
Ulf Knudsen and Rui Almeida

produced by
Akademi for scenekunst, Høgskolen i Østfold

IU

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