2022

ENTER GHOST, EXIT GHOST, RE-ENTER GHOST

The analogue knows we are imperfect – our movements are unsteady – that we eat with our hands. In the digital universe, all of this is numbered and hidden. We have to learn everything all over again. We have to find out what is moving, what is boring, what is funny? What are our instructions? Repeat after me: Enter ghost, exit ghost, re-enter ghost. ‍

With a title taken from the stage instructions for Hamlet, Verdensteatret alludes to what lies beyond the actual dialogue or action of a play, and to the poetry of what is noted in the margin.

During the past years Verdensteatret has  thematically immersed themselves in various forms of learning processes and tried to create a laboratory to study consciousnesses and how they are formed and interact. Both animals, people, machines and minerals are objects of study.

The work is the result of a collective process where materials and movements, sounds and scenographies from the past have assumed a new form – a ghostly presence, attempted to be captured on analogue film and the use of experimental coal microphones. When a film appears before our eyes at 24 frames per second, what is moving and what is standing still? Can soundwaves be captured in something material, something physical – become charred sound?

Creative team

Asle Nilsen, Espen Sommer Eide, Janne Kruse, Magnus Bugge, Niklas Adam and Torgrim Torve

Thanks to: Ali Djabbary og Martin Taxt

‘Enter ghost, exit ghost, re-enter ghost’ has been shown at

Nitja Centre for Contemporary Art between 19.02 and 20.03 2022 - see webpage

Lydgalleriet, Bergen between 19.08 and 11.09.2022 - see webpage

PHOTOS

Credit: Tor Simen Ulstein / Kunstdok