Invited artist Varste Mathæussen
10 - 16 OCT 2022
Norwegian Theatre Academy
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Varste Mathæussen is a highly acclaimed Inuit actress and master of mask dance. She has performed internationally for many years; among others with Jo Strømgren Compagni Norway and with the Greenland National Theater. From 2016-2018 she has been the head of the acting school at Greenland National Theater.
Encounter 1
With Artist Varste M. Mathæussen
Invited artist Beth and Annie Sprinkle
10 - 16 OCT 2022
Norwegian Theatre Academy
Beth Stephens and Annie Sprinkle have created multi-media art projects about love, sex, and queer ecologies together since 2002. Annie was a sex worker from 1973 to 1995 and morphed into a feminist performance artist and sex educator. In 1994, Beth became a professor of sculpture and intermedia at the University of California Santa Cruz, where she still teaches and directs the E.A.R.T.H. Lab. These days the duo make environmental films with an ecosexual gaze; they also create theater, performance art, eco-activism, and produce symposiums and workshops. Their Wedding to the Earth and the Ecosex Manifesto launched the Ecosex Movement in 2008. Notably, they were official documenta 14 artists, received a 2019 Eureka Fellowship, and a 2021 Guggenheim Fellowship. Their new book, Assuming the Ecosexual Position—the Earth as Lover, available at the University of Minnesota Press, chronicles their epic love story and art/life adventures.
Encounter 2
With Artists Beth and Annie Sprinkle
Invited artist Gier Tore Holm
10 - 16 OCT 2022
Norwegian Theatre Academy
Geir Tore Holm is a Sami artist that grew up in Manndalen in Kåfjord, but lives and works on the farm Ringstad in Skiptvedt. He works with video, photography, performance and installations. He considers art as a practical dialogue and it has been central to their work. His projects are about nature use, ecology, knowledge exchange and construction activities and is concerned with the interaction between people and the environment, agriculture and life. He has also received a number of scholarships and awards for his work, in 2015, he received the first Savio Award.