‘donkey – iteration II’ by Sandsmark//Findlay with Warren
‘donkey’ is the next installment in a series of performed installations occupied with the idea of iteration and continuation. Sandsmark//Findlay carry on where ‘every night in my dreams’ left off in both tone and material, working to extract, simplify, and refine elements to become something entirely new. ‘donkey’ offers a meditative space to re-imagine the ‘void’ left from the past, and perhaps more hopeful futures.
Using a playful and immediate approach, the work celebrates laborious tasks with an appreciation for endurance and dedication framed inside a circle. Embracing restraint as a guide, the work deals with interests in patterns and repetitions in dialog between sound, movements, images and physical matter. ‘donkey’ acknowledges the impossible separation between the body and the material, and how the creation of the world is an ongoing process of entanglement.
By: Marit Sandsmark and Iver Findlay with Peter Warren and Jean-Vincent Kerebel.
Conversation partner: Jon Refsdal Moe.
Electronics/ programming: Fabrice Moinet.
Costume fabrication: Victoria Heggelund.
Production Assistance: Greta Jasaitė.
Supported by: Kulturrådet, Rogaland Fylkeskommune, Stavanger kommune.
Co-production: BIT teatergarasjen (Bergen), Black Box teater (Oslo), RIMI/IMIR Scenekunst (Stavanger).
Thanks to Gabel Eiben, Dag Egil Njaa.