Haugtussa VR + ForRest installation
Interactive sensory installation, performance + composition for Garborgsenteret, Bryne + immersive VR experience + composition for Garborgsenteret, Bryne (permanent exhibition), Bergen Public Library, Haugesenteret, Ulvik + Norgesfilm distribution to libraries throughout the Nordic region. (2020-)
Haugtussa - ForRest + Haugtussa VR (2020-)
This project emerged from art + embodiment workshops and retreats (including Composers Retreats) from 2020, became seasonal series with folklore and ritual taking place in locations between Norway and the UK as well as spaces in-between, and evolved into a series called ForRest which encompassed socially engaged practice, movement, ecolology, sound, text and film.
ForRest became an installation, a colloaboration with Ketxl, entwining sound, embodiment and Spacemaking, which premiered at Garborgsenteret, Bryne in January 2020 and ran through until the end of March 2020. The installation was an offering to the local community, we co-created many interdisciplinary site-specific interrogations of space with curiosity. You can read + watch + hear more BTS about the Haugtussa installation here.
Work on the VR project began in 2020, and gratefully received funding from the Norwegian Film Institute. Here’s a short clip of Ketxl and I speaking about the project for the Nowegian short film festival here.