Type of artistic practices:

performance/ installation/ theatre

Current Projects :

Pornography – theatre piece

Cities Available :

Oslo

Languages Spoken:

English/ Norwegean

Hourly Rate:

1000 NOK

Repertoire of Solo Performances:

“Sex In The War Zone”
A one hour theatre piece, using voice manipulation effects. The show is about the artist's journey to Sarajevo and Kosovo/a and addresses the very taboo subject of (post) war-tourism, and the eroticism that 'westerners' experience in these situations.
Performed in Oslo, Bergen, Fredrikstad, Brussels, Belgrade, Porsgrunn, Leipzig, Helsinki, Frankfurt, Paris, Stockholm, Pula –Croatia.
(2002-2006)

“Peepshow Marilyn”
An ‘extreme art’ living installation using multiple fishhooks through the flesh to dramatise the significance of Marilyn – and the artist’s – pain.
Performed in Oslo (Savoy Hotel), Riga, Latvia (6th Element International Women’s Art Festival), Bergen International Theatre (Oktoberdans Festival), Belgrade (Queer Identities Festival 2002, Kaai Theatre Brussels, Teater Avant Garden Trondheim, Gothenberg Könstahelle (Nordic Live art Festival), Tours (Centre du Choreographie), Helsinki (Baltic Arts Festival), PUF international Theatre Festival - Croatia.
(2001 - to the present)

"An Evening With Johnny Johnson"
A one man full length performance looking at heterosexual masculinity anno 2005, in the guise of Johnny Johnson, just an average guy. Performed at Black Box International Theatre, Oslo; Hamar Kunstbanken., Porsgrunn Grenland Friteater, Trondheim Avant Garden, Det Åpne Teater Oslo
(2004 - to the present )

“No Star Show”
A satirical exposé of current trends in performance art.
National Gallery, Oslo (2005)

"Fantastic Politics"
Political performance-art as political performance art at a political art exhibition.
Museum for Contemporary Art, Oslo (2006-7)

“Tales From A Wicked Child”
Installation/performance using sound/photo + sculpture. Reflects on the politics of childhood, the dark underbelly of infancy and the artist’s relationship to the theme of ‘angels and monsters’. Performed in Oslo, Trondheim, Bergen, Belgrade (Nordic Scene), Frankfurt (Mousenturm Teater – Young directors festival).
(2003)

“Dead Diana”

Dead Diana is an umbrella concept encompassing the following:

“Dead Diana” performance

Solo performance using real-time voice manipulation where the artist 'brings back' Diana, Princess of Wales from a paradise populated with so many other dead celebrities - who also appear through the artist's body and voice. Performed in London (Bound and Gagged), Oslo, Copenhagen, Belgrade, Stockholm, Oslo, Trondheim, Bergen

“DDC World News” radio show
Writer and presenter of the 'DDC World News' (Dead Diana Corporation) A satirical, maverick radio show on Radio Orakel, Oslo (the first all-women run radio station in the world).

“Dead Diana + Maskinanlegg” CD
Recently released (under Rogbiff Records” ) “Kama Sutra: shit music”.
Ambient stereo album, where each channel contains a different groove: left-hand for women, right hand for men.

The Dead Diana Diaries & The Dead Celebrity Diaries
Published on the internet as part of the art-site Dead Diana.com. A year of Diana's diaries from the other side, chronicling the high factor soap-opera of paradise, where 'the only quality you need, to get into this, the hippest funkiest club of all time … is fame… it's like a fucking dead celebrity convention."

(1999 - to the present )

Theater/TV/Film appearences

2006: For the National Ibsen Theatre (Norway) centenary repertoire: “Ghosts” (Helene Alving), “When We Dead Awaken” (Irene), “Pillars Of The Community” - TV version (Lona Hessel)

Previous international professional theatre performances include “24 Hour Performance” Copenhagen International Theater; “Decadence” (Prague, dir. Edward Hall), Goneril in “King Lear” (Reading Open Air Theatre). Bellamira in “The Jew of Malta” (Kurtz TC, Barons Court Theatre, London).

Television includes 102 episodes of “The Snow Children” for TV2 Norway (shown in Norway, Denmark and China).
Documentary feature “1-1-1” (on the effects of global warming), Tellusworks, broadcast in Scandinavia + UK 2007

Short films: “He Always Seemed Like A Nice Guy”, Astral Prod. Norway (awarded “best of” at Grimstad 96).
“Between The Lines” Marianne Østengen (‘best of’ Grimstad Film Festival 1998),

Voiceover work ranging from TV documentaries to video games. Most recently “Ibsen: The Lion” for Tellusworks, a one hour feature documentary broadcast PBS New York 2006.

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Awards

Norwegian Playwrights Association 'Gledesglas' for An Evening With Johnny Johnson, 2005

Person Of The Year’ 2006 – Istra newspaper, Croatia

Best Stage Performance 2003 for Sex In The Warzone – National Association for Performing Arts (Norway)

Woman Of The Year 2003 – Radio Orakel (Oslo).

Pris Ars Electronica Honorary Mention, 1996 for “sense:less”

In reciept of a three year work stipend from the Norwegian Cultural Council (2007-2010)