Faith, Hope & Thermodynamics
29.04.2020 - 02.05.2020 Vårscenefest
Tromsø (NO)
- POSTPONED - New dates will follow
A site-specific and ongoing performance project along the seaside, with installation art and activism.
If you surf the web, open a newspaper or turn on the news, you get the impression that the world is in the wild. The media is full of war, death and misery. One may be tempted to long for the past, for an easier, happier time. But this media picture is not right. According to research and statistics, humanity is constantly making great leaps towards a better world. And the second law of thermodynamics says that the future cannot be simpler than the present. Complexity will always increase. Going back is not a possibility - we must move forward. That is our destiny - and the meaning of it all.
So we act.
Between February and June 2020 STATEX is planning a series of workshops and interventions around the challenges and questions of the Waterfront Laboratory. This research will culminate in a larger performance-based project called ‘Faith Hope and Thermodynamics’ premiering in autumn 2020.
D.I.Y - Manual for a potential future
18.09.2019 - 28.08.2019 Halogaland Teater
Tromsø (NO)
D.I.Y. - Manual for a Potential Future - A performance with dance, installation, music, primal scream, poetry and fermentation. Five self absorbed performance artists are excavating themselves from dystopia. Todays society suffers a crisis of future. We are trapped in the realities of the now. More than ever we need utopian visions. More than ever we need to raise questions. The result is a subjective and beautiful research of our potential collective futures.
Halogaland Teater
D.I.Y. - Manual for a Potential Future
STATEX COLLECTIVE
D.I.Y - Manual for a potential future by STATEX at Festival Trajectoires
22.01.2019 - 23.01.2019 Stereolux
Nantes (F)
Today, our society suffers a future crisis. It seems nearly impossible to imagine a society radically different form the existing one. We are trapped in the realities of the present. The project DIY or manual for a possible future, is based on recognition that the world can not change if we are unable to think about new futures. More than ever, we therefore need utopias.
‘The first law of thermodynamics states that energy can never be made or destroyed
Sunlight transforms into trees,
trees become oil,
oil is oxidised into CO2.
Nothing is lost
Matter and energy transform endlessly in various states
All matter and everything that ever will exist
exists already.'
Performance by and with installation artist Lawrence Malstaf, dancer / performer Liv Hanne Haugen, playwright Tale Næss, musician / performer Amund Sjølie Sveen and director Jon Tombre.
http://festival-trajectoires.com/diy-manual-for-a-potential-future/
NORDTING
24.08.2018 - 25.08.2018 RakettNatt
Tromsø (NO)
You never really know what will happen when Amund Sjølie Sveen and his comrades enter the stage. Well, one thing we know; he swings his verbal ammunition high and low, left and right.
NORDTING is more a public meeting meets standup meets political meeting meets concert meets performance than anything else. Actor, writer, journalist and musician Amund Sjølie Sveen is known for making stage productions aiming directly at the elite; the people with power and money. He also questions the position of art itself in today's society.
NORDTING is lead by Amund Sjølie Sveen with Liv Hanne Haugen and Erik Stifjell and various local guests.
D.I.Y - MANUAL FOR A POTENTIAL FUTURE
26.10.2018 KHIO
Oslo (NO)
Today, our society suffers a future crisis. It seems nearly impossible to imagine a society radically different form the existing one. We are trapped in the realities of the present. The project DIY or manual for a possible future, is based on recognition that the world can not change if we are unable to think about new futures. More than ever, we therefore need utopias.
‘The first law of thermodynamics states that energy can never be made or destroyed
Sunlight transforms into trees,
trees become oil,
oil is oxidised into CO2.
Nothing is lost
Matter and energy transform endlessly in various states
All matter and everything that ever will exist
exists already.'
Performance by and with installation artist Lawrence Malstaf, dancer / performer Liv Hanne Haugen, playwright Tale Næss, musician / performer Amund Sjølie Sveen and director Jon Tombre.
D.I.Y - Manual for a potential future
30.06.2018 FINN - Festspillene i Nord-Norge
Harstad (NO)
Today, our society suffers a future crisis. It seems nearly impossible to imagine a society radically different form the existing one. We are trapped in the realities of the present. The project DIY or manual for a possible future, is based on recognition that the world can not change if we are unable to think about new futures. More than ever, we therefore need utopias.
‘The first law of thermodynamics states that energy can never be made or destroyed
Sunlight transforms into trees,
trees become oil,
oil is oxidised into CO2.
Nothing is lost
Matter and energy transform endlessly in various states
All matter and everything that ever will exist
exists already.'
Performance by and with installation artist Lawrence Malstaf, dancer / performer Liv Hanne Haugen, playwright Tale Næss, musician / performer Amund Sjølie Sveen and director Jon Tombre.
MELTING
24.01.2017 Grand Theatre
Groningen (NL)
MELTING is an investigation of various questions related to the scientific, economic and psychological reasons for, and consequences of, our presumed current climate crisis.
Grand Theatre Groningen
Lawrence Malstaf
Amund Sjølie Sveen
Slagr
Premiere 'State & Ecstasy'
24.05.2016 FESTSPILLENE I NORD-NORGE
Harstad (NO)
'State & Ecstasy' is a performance with dance, installation, music, poetry: five artists dig into collectivity, both politically and existentially. The result is a subjective and beautiful examination of individualisation and freedom, and a fervent desire - both in art and politics - to achieve a collective ecstasy.
With Amund Sjølie Sveen, Lawrence Malstaf, Jon Tombre, Liv Hanne Haugen and Tale Næss.
MELTING
22.04.2016 - 23.04.2016 BIT Teatergarasjen
Bergen (NO)
MELTING is an investigation of various questions related to the scientific, economic and psychological reasons for, and consequences of, our presumed current climate crisis.