Note – “Made in China” is free of charge!
- The performance takes place outdoors and the weather can be unpredictable, so changes might occur close to the scheduled starting time
- Due to limited capacity, please contact janne@blackbox.no for registration
Practical information
- The performance starts at 20.00, duration approx 60 min
- Meeting place: Nesoddparken Kunst- og Kulturnæringssenter, Løeshagaveien 49, 1450 Nesoddtangen
- Public transport from Oslo, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday: Ferry B10 to Nesoddtangen from Aker Brygge at 19.03, or earlier departures. Corresponding bus 560 to the stop Torget. From Torget, follow the signs towards Nesoddparken. At Nesoddparken you will be met by a host who will take you to the venue.
- Public transport from Oslo, Saturday and Sunday: Ferry B10 to Nesoddtangen from Aker Brygge at 18.33. Corresponding bus 560 to the stop Torget. From Torget, follow the signs towards Nesoddparken. At Nesoddparken you will be met by a host who will take you to the venue.
- There are limited parking spaces at the Nesoddparken Kunst- og Kulturnæringssenter, but there are spaces at the Nesodden parish hall, along the road to the parish hall, and at the Nesodden church. About 10-15 minutes walk from the venue.
- Download a map from Torget to Nesoddparken here
- Weather and clothing: The performance takes place in the evening in the forest, we highly recommend warm clothing, both to keep warm and as protection against insects. We recommend bringing mosquito spray. Feel free to bring your own seating mat.
- Physical functional variation: The last 100 meters to the venue is a path with somewhat rough terrain, which is not suitable for wheelchair users. Contact Black Box teater if this applies to you, and we will try to make arrangements to the best of our ability.
call me Me
this I know
I move fluidly and submissively
to all sides at the same time
I flow out of nothing
I'm there
I am
but what
(excerpt from Made in China)
The Chinese landscape painting, Shanshui, is based on opposites, such as what falls and what rises, the visible and the invisible. But these are opposites that at the same time are in continuity and harmony with each other. Standing in front of a Chinese Shanshui painting, you will experience that the subject and linearity dissolves. The painting has no fixed perspective. The distance between the viewer and the painting disappears.
And look – a Path appears.
Inspired by the Shanshui painting, Made in China is a future-mythical text and sound installation of a creation narrative about the elements, the things, the resources, the products and the diverse ‘I’.
In the forest at Nesodden, Made in China explores where nature ends and culture begins – and what purpose man-made technology can have. With an eco-technical bent, Made in China plays with a panpsychic sensibility and approach that makes the divide between East and West, nature and culture, body and mind, mythology and rationality a little less obvious.
Made in China is a geographical detour from Klouman/Becker/Barratt-Due’s America project, which includes the Hedda award-winning performance We, the People and the critically acclaimed The Shining City.
Brent Busk teater and its art activities are part of Espen Klouman Høiner's doctoral project “The actor’s creative space – artistic strategies for the autonomous actor in a text-based and future-mythical theater” at the Oslo Academy of Arts, Theater Academy.