Sobrenatural2/2008
Mette Edvardsen
Mette Edvardsen (1970) has been living and working in Belgium over the last ten years. She started to work as a dancer for Les Ballets C. de la B. in 1996. She has collaborated on several projects by the company, with Hans Van den Broeck (1996-2000) and with Christine de Smedt (2000-2005). In 2005 Les Ballets C. de la B. presented a first version of her piece Opening in a shared evening program. She has performed in pieces by Thomas Hauert/ Zoo (B), Bock/ Vincenzi (UK), Mårten Spångberg (S), Lynda Gaudreau (CAN), and others. She created and produced two pieces in collaboration with Lilia Mestre (P/B), and the project Sauna in Exile in collaboration with Heine R. Avdal, Liv Hanne Haugen og Lawrence Malstaf in 2002/2004. She choreographed and danced a version of Thomas Lehmen's Schreibstuck together with Christine de Smedt and Mårten Spångberg in 2004. Her own work includes Private collection (2002), Stills (video, 2002), Time will show (detail) (2004), Opening (2005/2006), The way / you move (2006), and the group piece or else nobody will know (2007).
www.metteedvardsen.be
www.metteedvardsen.be
Faits divers
A film by Mette Edvardsen with Philippe Beloul
Performed by Philippe Beloul
Camera: Mette Edvardsen
Edited by Heiko Goelzer
Duration: 20 min
Performed by Philippe Beloul
Camera: Mette Edvardsen
Edited by Heiko Goelzer
Duration: 20 min
[...] The scene is repeated several times by the performer in an attempt to reproduce the video technology by means of his own doing. The actions are also performed in slow motion to then be put back to normal speed by video technology. The interest was both in the challenge of applying the ‘technology’ of repetition and slow motion in performing this scene, and in what that could produce in return. The reversal of roles between the two media ‘artificial technology’ and ‘authentic performance’ are mixed up in the process, creating as an outcome a disturbed ‘normality’.
Faits divers
Faits divers is a French journalistic term for 'human interest' stories, a way to provide an encounter with the unexpected and extraordinary ruptures in everyday life. In this small film we play with a faits divers as a starting point for a scene where in fact not so much else is taking place. The film shows an everyday situation with a man who is reading and drinking coffee. The faits divers in the newspaper causes another faits divers, an accident in the present situation of the reader.
The scene is repeated several times by the performer in an attempt to reproduce the video technology by means of his own doing. The actions are also performed in slow motion to then be put back to normal speed by video technology. The interest was both in the challenge of applying the ‘technology’ of repetition and slow motion in performing this scene, and in what that could produce in return. The reversal of roles between the two media ‘artificial technology’ and ‘authentic performance’ are mixed up in the process, creating as an outcome a disturbed ‘normality’.
The scene is repeated several times by the performer in an attempt to reproduce the video technology by means of his own doing. The actions are also performed in slow motion to then be put back to normal speed by video technology. The interest was both in the challenge of applying the ‘technology’ of repetition and slow motion in performing this scene, and in what that could produce in return. The reversal of roles between the two media ‘artificial technology’ and ‘authentic performance’ are mixed up in the process, creating as an outcome a disturbed ‘normality’.
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