Findlay//Sandsmark (F//S) is a Stavanger, Norway based performance company working across the disciplines of dance, theater, live music and video art in a collaborative and collective effort. Over the past years, starting in 2009, they have created several productions in the borderland between performing arts and installation, bending connections and correlations over disciplines to create live art which resonates from a physical and emotional plane.
Over this period, they have made nine large scale performances including most recently-donkey, Iteration II (2023/2024), every night in my dreams (early Cameroon) (2021/2022), lowlands(florida) (2019/2020), returner (2017/2018), (re)remember study (2015/2016) o’ death (2014/2015), and biograph, last year was pretty/shitty (2013/2014). This work has been presented in regular collaboration in Norway with Black Box Teater in Oslo, Bit Teatergarasjen in Bergen, and Rosendal Teater in Trondheim, and internationally at PS 122 Coil Festival and Abrons Arts Center in New York, On the Boards, Seattle, Wexner Center in Columbus, Charlotte Street Foundation, Kansas City, EMPAC-Troy, New York and Supernova festival in Rimini, Italy.
In addition to creating performances, they are also initiators of RIMI/IMIR SceneKunst in Stavanger, Norway and (O)utpost Flørli, where they have a full-time production studio in an old boat factory / grocery store, as well as co-facilitating and curating the platform. Both projects are manifestations and extensions of the artistic Findlay/Sandsmark platform and are related to their continuous and always strong drive and engagement to foster and make spaces for artistic exchange, curation and building community.
The work is supported by Arts Council Norway, Rogaland Fylkeskommune, Stavanger Kommune and Sandnes kommune.