I Fictions of the flesh møter vi karakteren Syncopator som kroppsliggjør både fortiden og fremtiden. Hun glir, flyter og faller gjennom rommet som en luftspeiling eller et bjørnedyr, monarksommerfuglen eller nattoget til Palmyra. Hun føder et par haler bak noen benker og gjør et hamskifte mellom trærne. Hun sklir over rekkverk og gror mellom sprekker i fortauet. Langsomt blir fingrene så lange at hun ikke lenger kan bære dem. De knipser stille mens de trekker henne baklengs inn i universets ende.

Knips.

Knips.

Knips.

“The futures we imagine reveal the biases of the present; it seems entirely possible that imagining different futures and temporalities might help us see, and do, the present differently” - Alison Kafer

I Fictions of the Flesh ser Fiksdal, Floen og Slåttøy på ulike ideer om samtidighet, og hvordan disse kan komme til uttrykk i kostyme, dans og koreografi. Kunstnerne undersøker jazzdans som bevegelsesarkiv i egne kropper, og kombinerer dette med inspirasjon fra sjangeren spekulativ fiksjon, hvor fremtidige, utvida kropper streifer omkring.

“To enlarge contemporaneity means to amplify the field of reciprocity between the principle of equality and the principle of the recognition of difference.” - Boaventura de Sosa Santos, Epistemologies of the South

Om Kunstnerne:

Ingri Midgard Fiksdal (1982) is a choreographer based in Oslo, Norway. In 2019, she finished a PhD in artistic research at Oslo National Academy of the Arts titled Affective Choreographies. This research took shape as six performances and three books. Ingri’s work on affect has in recent years taken her into discourses on perspective and privilege. She is currently working on a number of projects addressing the intersection between the post-anthropocentric and the decolonial from a feminist perspective. Ingri is concerned with how practise and theory are entangled in her work in a way where neither is perceived as anterior to the other. Ingri’s work has in recent years been performed at Kunstenfestival in Brussels, Palais de Tokyo in Paris, Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, Santarcangelo festival, Beijing Contemporary Dance Festival, Sommerszene in Salzburg, Reykjavík Art Museum, brut-Wien, Teatro di Roma, Harbourfront Centre Toronto, Contemporary Art Center Cincinnati, BUDA Kortrijk, Tanzhaus NRW in Dusseldorf and Steirischer Herbst Festival in Graz, alongside extensive touring in Norway.

www.ingrifiksdal.com

Fredrik Floen (1988) is a Norwegian visual artist, costume and stage designer who presents his work in a range of different theatrical meetings. Fredrik graduated from Oslo Academy of the Arts spring 2017 with an MA in Fashion and Costume Design. Former education in Fashion and production design, theatre studies and a past as assistant in the company Vinge/Müller in Volksbühne, Berlin. As an independent artist, his work is centered on costume practice with a theatrical aesthetic in different collaborations and contexts. Fredrik has in the recent years worked with Nationaltheater Mannheim, Hotel Pro Forma, Otta Kulturhus, Palais de Tokyo, School of The Arts Institute Chicago, Munch Museet, Black Box Theater, Ibsenfestivalen, Teaterfestivalen I Fjaler, The Norwegian Opera, Scene: Bluss, Fruholmen Fyr, The Norwegian Opra (Trond Reinholdsen), Turteatern, Marie Nikazm Bakken & Ingri Fiksdal. His work has been exhibited at the Sullivan Galleries in Chicago and in Palais de Tokyo in the context of the Do Disturb festival and he is currently Artist in Residence at the new Munch Museum in Oslo.

www.friedrichfloen.com

Mariama Fatou Kalley Slåttøy (1992) is a freelance dance artist based in Oslo, Norway. She graduated from Oslo National Academy of the Arts/Faculty of Dance in 2014. Mariama works with movement within a wide range of expressions from dance performances of different natures to physical and interdisciplinary theatre and various film projects. She has worked with choreographers, directors and dance artists such as Jo Strømgren, Ingri Fiksdal and Fredrik Floen, Eline Arbo, Ole Martin Meland, Niels Windfeldt, Un-Magritt Nordseth and Jon Tombre. In the recent years Mariama has done a series of productions at Hålogaland Teater in Tromsø, and performed at venues such as The Norwegian National Opera House, Arctic Arts Festival, Det Norske Teatret, Showbox Festival/Black Box Theater, Dansens Hus and toured with Hålogaland Teater and Oslo Danse Ensemble/Riksteatret.

www.mariama.no