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Skrevet av Eline Bjerkan på Scenekunst.no 21.April 2021
Det er enkelt å forstå hva man skal gjøre, og følelsen av å bli ivaretatt av en eller flere utøvere er til stede selv om jeg sitter alene foran pc-skjermen. Samtidig er oppgavene fleksible nok til at hver og en kan løse dem på sin egen måte. Med sitt stedsfokus og paralleller til fenomener som mindfulness fremstår performancen dessuten aktuell både i og utenfor et korona-perspektiv.
Alt i alt overbeviser A Space Journey om at digitale teateropplevelser kan være vel så givende som de fysiske.
Written by Eline Bjerkan at Scenekunst.no April 21st 2021
It’s easy to follow, and the feeling of being taken care of by one or more practitioners is present even when I am sitting alone in front of the PC screen. At the same time, the tasks are flexible enough for everyone to solve them in their own way. With its site focus and parallels to phenomena such as mindfulness, the performance also appears relevant both in and outside a Corona perspective.
All in all, A Space Journey convinces that digital theater experiences can be just as rewarding as the physical ones. (google translated)
Skrevet av Hedda Fredly i Norsk Shakespeartidsskrift påsken 2021
De fleste av oss har fått digital fatigue for lengst. Men i 2020 ble det laget en god del live, smittevernforsvarlig scenekunst som ikke innebar å overvære ting via skjerm.
Festivalen Sånafest programmerte blant andre Ingvild Isaksens A Space Journey som har som mål å sprenge veggene i hver enkelt publikummers koronabrakke gjennom oppgaver som aktiviserer lytteren, som innebærer menneskelig kontakt (via telefon), og som tilbyr nye innfallsvinkler på tid og rom, kropp vs. omgivelser, sanselighet vs. filosofi. Jeg gjennomgikk reisen i Isaksens regi fra soverommet mitt i oktober. I starten av ferden var jeg litt ukonsentrert og utålmodig. Men mot slutten var jeg ganske oppløfta! I sin avvæpnende form tilbød A Space Journey meg en overraskende anerkjennelse av meg som publikummer uten at det ble for narsissistisk, men ga mer en fornemmelse av et fellesskap jeg pleide å kjenne til – som hvor deilig det kan være å være en del av feedbacksløyfa i kunstmøter.
Har koronakrisa ført til en bølge der tilskueren igjen blir mer betydningsfull?
Written by Hedda Fredly for Norsk Shakespeartidsskrift in Easter 2021
Most of us have had digital fatigue for a long time. But in 2020, a good deal of live, infection-safe performing arts was created that did not involve watching things via screen.
The festival Sånafest programmed, among others, Ingvild Isaksen's A Space Journey, which aims to blow up the walls of each audience's corona barracks through tasks that activate the listener, which involve human contact (by phone), and which offer new angles on time and space, body vs. surroundings, sensuality vs. philosophy. I went through the journey under Isaksen's direction from my bedroom in October. At the beginning of the journey, I was a little unfocused and impatient. But towards the end I was quite uplifted! In its disarming form, A Space Journey offered me a surprising recognition of myself as an audience member without it becoming too narcissistic, but gave more of a sense of a community I used to know - like how wonderful it can be to be a part of the feedback loop in art meetings.
Has the corona crisis led to a wave in which the spectator again becomes more significant? (google translated)
The space of Åsa made into movement by Elisa Vassena.
feedback from previous Space Journeys
Reallly great ! I really enjoyed this moment of calm and poetry ! Thanks ! You really made my day !
Lenormand Édouard, Paris
Surprising! It's like a mindfulness experience of being "here and now". Just being into the space with the space and myself. In the end the video recording was different from what I could sense at the beginning. Although it's not always easy to understand what to do (your mind is always asking if I'm followinge the instruction in the correct way), step by step you enter into the play. Talking to my peer on the other side of the world about how to have an imprint from another human being was really powerful.
Thank you so much, I'll take this in my heart.
Mirella Carrozzieri, Bogota
Great experience, I found necessary these exercises, these appreciations of the space, that lately I've stayed most of my time, enjoying it and discovering it.... beautiful experience...
Antonio Arangoa, Italy
Thank you for this journey. It helped me to discover new hidden corners and stories and memories in this space that I have been living in for the past six months. I feel more attached now to this space as if from now on we are connected somehow. It also evoked some feelings of sadness and anger, but that was good, to feel it in some places, to sit with it, aknowledge it and let it go. It feels now that this space holds me, or that I hold it inside of me and that I will carry the space with me even when I leave this house.
Ine Ubben, London
The main insight was my disconnection from my body, I found it hard to measure and explore the space without being taken away by images, stories and words appearing on my mind. that motivated me to sign up for a yoga class next week, I also think about coming back to my miserable attempts to meditate every day - I'm terrible at meditation, but feel how much I needed it. it was a great experience that gave me a lot of food for thoughts as well as made me appreciate more the space of my room that I've just moved in, now I feel I 'own' it a little bit more. good luck with your future projects! greetings from Tbilisi, Georgia x
Polina Bakhtina, Tbilisi, Georgia
Awesome, creative, fun, fruitful, moving, curious, new, fresh, smiling
David Laferrière, Barcelona
My subconscious bias dominated my journey. It did lead me nowhere. I should have totally emptied my mind before starting this journey.
I was expecting someone to take me somewhere. I found out the journey is what I create for myself. Thank you!
Best, Yoshiki Nishimura, Japan
Meditative. Really enjoyed it. The 'sitting in a different place' exercise took me back to sitting on the floor in preschool around 1987-8. Had flashbacks of sitting in a circle and learning how to count to 10 in Spanish - something I still remember how to do 33 years later. Funny how repeating a bodily position in a different space (and different continent) can take the mind back over 3 decades.
Rob Eagle, Toronto
Wow didn't expect the last part at all!! It was such an amazing experience to (re)discover my room, thanks for it :)
Pedro Sanca, Spain
I enjoyed it at this time of the day, when all the life of the house goes silent. I have three very active children, and had the space journey just after they had fallen asleep. It was special to talk to someone on the phone who is at the other end of Europe (Felipe in Norway, and I in Crete). Very powerful thing to bring into existence something that he has close into his space into my own space, through the body. I also loved sitting on the desk in my room, and remembering immediately the days I was at high school sitting on desks with feet on the chairs, during breaks and chatting to mates. I will cherish the video I made of the space, at the hight of my third son, who hasjust turned 2. I have much more an understanding of how his parents' room feels to him...thanks for the precious journey into a very intimate space of my daily life. It will never be the same again, and I think I will keep looking for other layers to add to the way I experience it!
Alexandra D'Onofrio, NYC, USA