NEITHER FISH NOR FOWL / VERKEN FUGL ELLER FISK by Lise Hovik

This exposition is a documentary project on the artistic research project Neither Fish nor Fowl. The research project consists of theater making, film making, workshops, performances and writing, and explores the wondrous worlds of becoming in theatre for early years. Together with my theater company Teater Fot, I have been investigating the significance of affect as philosophical, emotional, and material inspiration in the creative process, and in relation to young children in Theater for Early Years. Neither Fish nor Fowl was conducted as a performance project from April 2017 to March 2020. During this period, the research process was documented in RC, presenting methods, writings, and reflections along the way. The pre-production performance (for babies 0-2) was shown at the festival Olavsfestdagene in Trondheim, Norway, summer 2017 and at Trondheim Kunsthall autumn 2017. The full production, Begynnelser (for 3-5 years), was presented in april 2018 in co-production with the venue Teaterhuset Avant Garden in Trondheim. Baby Becomings (0-2 years), was presented at festivals and for kindergartens in Trondheim autumn 2018, and the final version Himmel & Hav / Sky & Sea was presented at Rosendal Teater in in March 2020, touring kindergartens for one week. Animalium (2019) was a a kind of spin-off with film making, workshops, visiting exhibition spaces and eventually article writing with an exposition in VIS - Nordic Journal for Artistic Research #2 on the theme Estrangement. In 2020-22 Animalium has become a new research project, looking at post humanist approaches to different sites such as kindergarten spaces, libraries and art exhibition spaces. We are developing new performance strategies with deepening our improvisational and listening skills into a more-than-human sympoietic intra-playfulness. Trying to perform these concepts, we might understand more of what they actually mean to our artistic practice.

Notes in Norwegian

on the working process

of the old woolen plaids

< Mai 2017 >

Seabed with Ray / Sandbunn med Skate

Den triste skaten.

Runde gjennomhullinger i læret gjør at man kan ane konturene av skatekroppen.

Den fikk et trist drag på munnen, et slags blekt innadvendt uttrykk som kaller på melankolien.

Jeg var jo litt spent på hva Anne Helga ville komme med. Og ble overrasket over formen - som ikke var sentrert rundt midten, men beveget seg liksom sidelengs fra den ene kanten til den andre. Allikevel hadde komposisjonen av ulltepper en harmonisk bevegelse i seg, nesten som bølger som ruller mot stranden og trekker seg tilbake...

Og det var perfekt, for det var jo her skaten skulle bo. Nederst på sandbunnen, gjemt i sitt eget mønster.

Skaten ble laget av et teppe som ikke ble integrert i komposisjonen. Anne Helga leverte en papirform, og jeg klippet den ut av ullteppet og sydde den sammen med et stykke lær.

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