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1. when

   In the film ”when” Ottar Ormstad is transferring his practice as concrete poet to the realm of a programmable networked space, blending his poetry with specially composed modern music with electronic elements. His b/w photographs developed in the darkroom are presented in combination with words in different languages, some of them exceeded into ”letter-carpets”. Some sentences are from well known songs or films, other letter-combinations are invented by the author.

   The film is telling a story about life and death, basically from the standpoint of cars, rotten in a field in Sweden. The narrative is very open, and each viewer may experience the film very differently. This is also dependent upon the language background, any translation is – intentionally – not given.

   when has been screened at festivals for experimental short film, so far in France, Romania, Russia and Norway.

   Ottar Ormstad - 24.07.2012 - 23:55

2. NONCE.EXECUTOR (disposable language)

   Nonce.Executor is a video poem.

   Talan Memmott - 22.10.2012 - 00:37

3. Disposable Language

   This performance is based on Memmott’s video poem “NONCE.EXECUTOR” a poem that juxtaposes words with phrases and images that somehow define or describe them. The dancers are positioned between the screen and a disheveled blonde doll sitting on the front of the stage with a spotlight shining on it. The dancers’ movements are very doll-like, making stiff movements that emphasize their joints and how they bend and rotate on dolls. Are the dancers an explanation or description of the doll?

   Choreography: Ashley Peters
   Poetry: Talan Memmott (“NONCE.EXECUTOR”)
   Dancers: Samantha Crosby, Danielle Delong, Julie Marazzo, Kristina Merrill, Shannon Moore, Megan Rutkowski, Holli Simme, Julia Tomanovich, Emily Wilhelm

   (Source: Leonardo Flores, I ♥ E-Poetry)

   Hannelen Leirvåg - 28.04.2013 - 17:24

4. Expansive Mayhem

   The interpretive dance performance seeks to evoke the experience of a concussion and does so by clustering six dancers on a side of the stage using red lighting to suggest a sense of the inside of the speaker’s head. When the dancers are clustered, swaying semi-coherently, they evoke the sense of a brain function normally, but as the piece progresses it begins to unravel, as the dancers spiral out of control. Their disjointed movements as they each dance on their own, spread around the stage mimics the cognitive impact of a concussion, echoed by the language hovering over them. The dance performance concludes by returning to normal function, urgently, as one of the dancers runs around the reorganized collective, as if trying to hold them together by sheer force of will as the screen and stage fade to black, leading us to wonder. Has the brain been healed? Has normal language function returned?

   “Expansive Mayhem”
   Choreography: Julia Tedesco and Ellie Sanna
   Poetry: Loss Pequeño Glazier (“Io Sono At Swoons “)
   Music: Jai Uttal and Ben Leinbach
   Dancers: Melissa Hunt, Marika Matsuzak, Stephanie Ohman, Sammi Pfieffer, Samantha Will, Jessica Viglianco

   Hannelen Leirvåg - 28.04.2013 - 18:38