Vardagsmat, featuring Kajsa Jacobsen, Johannes Stavland
Two dancers live in a neutral apartment, dressed in absurd clothing. With simple and slow movements, they eat breakfast cereal, slowly fall from their chairs—it’s a thought experiment; they are never entirely present. They sit at the dining table, on the sofa, and engage in a staring contest with the audience, but where is the audience? One stands on the sofa, paralyzed, with a powerful fan blowing, while another falls, creating echoes.
We often find ourselves in a creative bubble within the art world, at school, or out in the field, struggling to reconnect with “normal” everyday life. We want to explore what happens when you remain in a performative state and continue to wear the costumes at home. The artistic work lingers in the artist’s body, echoing into daily life. What happens if we once again subject this audience-less performance to an audience? A performance that echoes a previous performance, which echoes previous performances, and so on. How will the dancers behave at a public event? They seem to be just guests, but they wear these huge, abnormal costumes. Do they know there are others in the room? The artist’s life is filled with echoes; our own work flows into our daily tasks and vice versa.
In a very concrete way, we have a video that is currently 2:30 long and not yet entirely finished. We are also exploring these characters in a live performative setting. A performance without a time frame, seamlessly blending in with the people at the festival, and so on
