RESULTS GUARANTEED

This was an interdisciplinary art project initiated by composer and script writer Stefan Thorsson, in collaboration with visual artist and set designer Camilla Wexels Riser & dramaturg/performer Liv Kristin  Holmberg for the absolutely exseptional space in <Skien; Spriten Kunstahll and its 6 flights of stairs up to throug the tower. We collaborated with  performers and musicians from Norway, Sweden and Germany. The project takes its starting point in Hermann Hesse’s  novel “Steppenwolf”; in particular the design and ideas of [the idea of]  the magical theatre, based and inspired by C.G. Jung’s thesis about our  dream life and multiple identities. The participating artists were all  invited to collaborate out of their individual need and interest in various dramaturgical strategies connected to stage art, which may open  up hierarchies and borders between text, music, dance, performance and  installation art. The results of the continuous working process lead us  to find our way into the “magic” – where Hesse’s ideas and metaphors of  the magic theatre could be conceived as an image of the human mind. In  this first of ambulant versions, the theatre – with its many doors and  rooms, levels and stages – displayed varying content and experiences that suggested ways and methods in the meeting of oneself.

Supported by Norwegian Arts Council and The Ensemble at Spriten Kunsthal, Skien, Norway 

with; Stefan Thorsson, Fernanda Branco, Catrine Danielsen, Ruhi Erdogan, Siri Jøntvedt,  Gisle Hass, Liv Kristin Holmberg, Magnar Mork, Martin Olsen, Einar  Ottestad, Gunnar Thelin, Stine Gonsholt, Telemark Messingensemble, Harald Fossen.