KICKOFF - Vi kan! Vi vil! Vi bestemmer!
28.03.09 Blå Grotte, FredrikstadPolitical seminar for youth arranged by Fredrikstad Kommune
March 28, 2009 Fredrikstad Kommune launched a kickoff-seminar at Blå Grotte for their new project ‘Vi vil! Vi kan! Vi bestemmer!’ (‘We want! We can! We decide!’). A project to get the young people of Fredrikstad to understand that THEIR involvement in their community is wanted and appreciated by the politicians. A day-long seminar with lectures about democracy and environment, cultural inputs of music and open discussions among and between the youths and politicians. As a scenography-student at Norwegian Theatre Academy I was asked if I wanted to create a visual frame for the seminar.
My starting point became oil as it is deeply connected to environmental issues, but also overwhelmingly beautiful when it reflects light. I made a laboratory situation where I experimented with video, sound and graphical drawings around the theme.
From the moment you entered through the doors and walked passed the cave-like space under the amfi you could hear a deep, surrounding underwater-cave sound. This was accompanied by a colored video-loop of different reactions between water and oil. In the front-stage-area there were magenta dots as graphic representations of drops or bubbles.
March 28, 2009 Fredrikstad Kommune launched a kickoff-seminar at Blå Grotte for their new project ‘Vi vil! Vi kan! Vi bestemmer!’ (‘We want! We can! We decide!’). A project to get the young people of Fredrikstad to understand that THEIR involvement in their community is wanted and appreciated by the politicians. A day-long seminar with lectures about democracy and environment, cultural inputs of music and open discussions among and between the youths and politicians. As a scenography-student at Norwegian Theatre Academy I was asked if I wanted to create a visual frame for the seminar.
My starting point became oil as it is deeply connected to environmental issues, but also overwhelmingly beautiful when it reflects light. I made a laboratory situation where I experimented with video, sound and graphical drawings around the theme.
From the moment you entered through the doors and walked passed the cave-like space under the amfi you could hear a deep, surrounding underwater-cave sound. This was accompanied by a colored video-loop of different reactions between water and oil. In the front-stage-area there were magenta dots as graphic representations of drops or bubbles.