Dubious Chalk Circle
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Dubious Chalk Circle
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Dubious Chalk Circle
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Dubious Chalk Circle
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Dubious Chalk Circle
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Dubious Chalk Circle
18.05.2019
Coordinated by Temenuga Georgieva.
Archeological Museum
Veliko Turnovo, Bulgaria
Sound installation
Based on a script written by Lars Nordby, an original score composed by Mirian Kolev is voice-overed by Leonid Yovchev and played through a surround system. The sound installation, titled Dubious Chalk Circle, is presented in the garden at the Archeological Museum in Veliko Turnovo during the European Nights of Museums. The installation is part of Nordby’s continuous exploration of identity, theatricality and his conceptual framework titled irrelational.
“The title Dubious Chalk Circle is borrowed from Bertolt Brecht’s theater play Caucasian Chalk Circle. The script written by Nordby is inspired by Henrik Ibsen's immaterial approach to identity and Jacque Rancière’s notion of Ibsen's ‘Immobile Theater’. Undermining the function of the Chalk Circle, a method of determining and identifying the true belonging of someone, Dubious Chalk Circle stage an absence of plotline. Meaning is located in the suspended moments, and substance is to be found in moments of inactivity and pauses. Further referring to the genre Theater of Absurdity, where humanity is lost in a sensation of meaninglessness, Nordby converts the sensation to a total lack of meaninglessness. The conversion is fused by tendencies of violence and radical antagonisms in society at large we witness today. Nordby expresses a form of overidentification, through psychoanalytical terms, to emphasize a perverted need of meaning, a need of having something absolute to hold on to, a primal, perverted, even claustrophobic sense of identity crisis - leading up to theatrical circumstances, or in Nordby’s words, an irrelational moment.” - Outtake from press release
“Couldn’t we, with Nordby, therefore say that art’s function isn’t about bringing us through to a position where we have come to a worthy recognition of something, but rather that it is a field where we can experience fragments torn from the narrative that we are otherwise so blindly absorbed in?”
- Kjetil Røed, The Prop as a Tool for Recognition / Read more
Thanks to Leonid Yovchev, Mirian Kolev, and Stefan Krastev.
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18.05.2019
Coordinated by Temenuga Georgieva.
Archeological Museum
Veliko Turnovo, Bulgaria
Sound installation
Based on a script written by Lars Nordby, an original score composed by Mirian Kolev is voice-overed by Leonid Yovchev and played through a surround system. The sound installation, titled Dubious Chalk Circle, is presented in the garden at the Archeological Museum in Veliko Turnovo during the European Nights of Museums. The installation is part of Nordby’s continuous exploration of identity, theatricality and his conceptual framework titled irrelational.
“The title Dubious Chalk Circle is borrowed from Bertolt Brecht’s theater play Caucasian Chalk Circle. The script written by Nordby is inspired by Henrik Ibsen's immaterial approach to identity and Jacque Rancière’s notion of Ibsen's ‘Immobile Theater’. Undermining the function of the Chalk Circle, a method of determining and identifying the true belonging of someone, Dubious Chalk Circle stage an absence of plotline. Meaning is located in the suspended moments, and substance is to be found in moments of inactivity and pauses. Further referring to the genre Theater of Absurdity, where humanity is lost in a sensation of meaninglessness, Nordby converts the sensation to a total lack of meaninglessness. The conversion is fused by tendencies of violence and radical antagonisms in society at large we witness today. Nordby expresses a form of overidentification, through psychoanalytical terms, to emphasize a perverted need of meaning, a need of having something absolute to hold on to, a primal, perverted, even claustrophobic sense of identity crisis - leading up to theatrical circumstances, or in Nordby’s words, an irrelational moment.” - Outtake from press release
“Couldn’t we, with Nordby, therefore say that art’s function isn’t about bringing us through to a position where we have come to a worthy recognition of something, but rather that it is a field where we can experience fragments torn from the narrative that we are otherwise so blindly absorbed in?”
- Kjetil Røed, The Prop as a Tool for Recognition / Read more
Thanks to Leonid Yovchev, Mirian Kolev, and Stefan Krastev.
