Together with your guide, you get the chance to retrace her steps and experience the city from a whole new perspective.

Valentina Medda’s art project has traveled the world from Paris to Bologna, from Amsterdam and now to Trondheim where an audience is invited for the first time. The artist proposes that by exploring the city with their bodies, in fact, the women draw a new city, one with borders that are not merely geographical but physical, emotional and political. Each of the walks are personalized by the walker – shaped by her age, her class, her ethnicity, her provenance, her level of acquaintance with the city – the walks show eventually how not only gender but also shared beliefs, prejudices and cultural background shape, redefine and contract the urban space and our access to it.

We can’t wait to follow these women as they map up Trondheim in a way it has never been done before.

ABOUT THE ARTIST: Valentina Medda is an interdisciplinary artist from Sardinia who currently lives and works in Bologna.

Her artistic practice unfolds between image, performance and site-specific interventions, inquiring the relationship between public and private, body and architecture, city and social belonging. She has been awarded several prizes for her work, among them an international award for contemporary art. This will be Meddas first visit and work in Trondheim and Norway.

Practical information:
This is a guided tour outdoors. Meet up at the main entrance at Rosendal Theater.
To participate in the tour, you must have a smartphone with headphones available.
You will be asked to download an audio file before attending.

Trigger warning:

The audio you will listen to during this walk is a recollection of voices – different fears from different women of all ages, backgrounds and ethnicities. Fears can be irrational, and sometimes the opposite of politically correct. The audio may trigger the listener. It is the artist’s choice to keep all of the observations and fears that has been given by the women participating in the project, and it is important: This project is exactly about how the sense of fear is influenced by our own prejudices and how these prejudices are the result of politics, cultural background and ignorance.