av fortellerkunstner | apr 10, 2020 | In English
Prince Thadeus has assembled a number of female storytellers because his wife has been struck by a desire to hear stories. He opens the long telling session with the following words: ”There is nothing more pleasing and glorious in the world, O my noble women, than...
av fortellerkunstner | apr 6, 2020 | Artistic research, In English
Artistic research – what is it, how it is done and by whom? These are some of the questions I hope I will able answer in this series that I start here. My focus is oral storytelling in combination with artistic research. There is an increased focus on artistic...
av fortellerkunstner | apr 3, 2020 | In English
What is hard enough to crush the rock mild enough to soothe the skin high enough to touch the sky it can relieve your pain and cool your heat In 2003, I was involved in creating a water project in Biermannsgården in Oslo for pupils in primary school. To get into the...
av fortellerkunstner | apr 1, 2020 | In English
I walk to the graveyard every morning. It’s a nice ritual, there the tombstones stand with their quiet whispers and remind me that there was life before too. Every day I go to there: I visit Daniel, my son’s grave and I walk the dog. The graveyard here...
av fortellerkunstner | mar 30, 2020 | In English
Beyond the border, perhaps the longest-lived and biggest storytelling festival in Europe has been canceled this year due to the pandemic. It’s a shame, but very understandable. I thought I should tell a little about my relationship with the festival. The first...
av fortellerkunstner | mar 16, 2020 | In English
Skin, hair, eyes, appearance, this shell of us humans get far more attention than the experiences and processes and memories that form our identities. A well-dressed woman as a sales argument or a blogger who exposes her operations to become a better person (she says...
