Jenny Hval – I want to be a machine
Photo: Jenny Berger Myhre
I want to be a machine is an interdisciplinary music performance with new music written and performed by Jenny Hval and three fellow musicians.
There is a limited number of tickets for this concert.
A ticket for the concert also gives access to the exhibitions at Henie Onstad.
Free for anyone under 18, as long as it isn't sold out.
- Normal ticket: 270, -
- HOK member: 240, -
I want to be a machine is also an essay, written on stage, with words, images, acoustic and electronic instruments and non-instruments. This text is about what it means to be on stage.
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Photo: Jenny Berger Myhre
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Photo: Jenny Berger Myhre
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Photo: Jenny Berger Myhre
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Photo: Jenny Berger Myhre
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Photo: Jenny Berger Myhre
As a young art student, Hval was introduced to the play Die Hamletmaschine (1977) by the German playwright and poet Heiner Müller. This play creates a modern, post-dramatic machine out of Shakespeare's famous Hamlet, but for Hval it was more than that. The characters resembled what she hoped pop musicians could be: broken pieces of fallen greatness, heroic tales and the human experience, put back together into something resembling people. Voices that can tell other, stranger and more absurd stories.
I want to be a machine asks what kind of stories the artist can tell in a time where music, and perhaps art in general, has lost almost all value as a physical, corporeal and philosophical experience.
Duration about 60 minutes.
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Since 2006, Jenny Hval has been known both in Norway and internationally for her work as a composer, artist, performer and writer. Interdisciplinary and transcending are words that have often been used about her expression, but the various facets of her artistry are a seamless weave between musical, literary, visual and performative forms of expression. In this way, she has excavated a voice that is at the same time present, accessible and complex.
I want to be a machine will be her first newly written music since the album Classic Objects, which was released in 2022 on the record company 4AD.
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Håvard Volden, Jenny Berger Myhre og Linn Nystadnes.