Tree Talks - Copper Beech (2018-2021)
Concept and work by LATERNA // Inger-Reidun Olsen and Marianne Skjeldal, in colleboration with Terje Tjøme Mossige.
Performed as part of the programmed at Black Box teater, Oslo (NO); 1.–20. september 2020 and 16.–19. juni 2021 at the Cemetery of Our Saviour in Oslo, Norway.
This performance was developed through Tree Talks practice 2018-2021, which was part of LATERNAs long term art-project CoSA - Concerning the Spiritual in Art (Part 2, 2018-2022). Read more further down.
Tree Talks Practice - Copper Beech (2018-2021)
Tree Talks is a practice that is part of CoSA project.
From 2018-2022 through all four seasons, the Tree Talks project will visit four old, prominent and venerable city trees in Oslo. The tallest trees towering the urban landscape were planted over 200 years ago. They have seen the city change and grow, in parallel to their own roots.Through meditation and other methods to awake the sensuous, we spend time and enter dialogue with each tree.
LATERNA has invited four other artists, one for each tree, to join the practice; Terje Tjøme Mossige, Fernanda Branco, Pernille Bønkan and Ingvild Langgård/Margrethe Pettersen. In addition, Sara Rönnbäck and Daniel Slåttnes are involved in meeting all four trees throughout the period, as well as Per Platou and Ulrik Ibsen Thorsrud have come in at a later stage when realising our artistic responses. Based on the ‘conversations’ with each tree, we develop responses in the form of performative work that we invite the audience along to experience.
LATERNA seeks out to find alternative entering points to choreography. Tree Talks strive to allow something to occur – rather than focusing on producing. Together we listen into what is present and experience a different spending of time.