Nothing's for something

Nothing's for something (2012) is a production by Yukiko Shinozaki and Heine Avdal.

Information

(Objekt ID 26467)
Object type Production
Premiere March 23, 2012
Produced by fieldworks vzw
Coproducers , , Kunstencentrum BUDA, BIT Teatergarasjen,
In collaboration with WP Zimmer, MDT, Black Box Teater, Rosendal Teater,
Audience Adults
Keywords Dance
Running period March 23, 2012  
Website fieldworks
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In Nothing's for something by Yukiko Shinozaki and Heine Avdal the foundation is that all the elements in a performance comment on each other in a non-hierarchic system, like nodes in a computer network - as in an interface.

Performer, technician and spectator, sound, lighting and stage design or video projection, and different objects, are all on equal footing come to significance. The audience needs to put together a user manual for the room while entering it. All of this may have been especially clear in the Field Works series, when the audience was invited into ordinary, semi-public spaces; a hotel room and an office landscape, in which there were made several small, but determining changes.

Traditionally art has presented things we liked to watch or wanted to see. As opposed to this, Nothing's for something takes hand of the process to reveal reality behind the visible world. The visible is only an isolated part of all there is, and the strength of art is that it may point out several latent realities. One may say that contemporary art neither is to be read nor understood, but that it is successful when creating energies. Inspired by the epoch-making Klee, who danced when he painted, by Rilke, the perfectionist of process and form, and the master of mundane wonderment, Perec, Nothing's for something will make the invisible forces of art visible. The production represents a lift in dimensions, and a re-orientation of originality in their own movement project, by creating a production for a larger stage room and more performers.

Avdal and Shinozaki have collaborated in several projects. Prior to Nothing's for something the most were Field Work - Office and - Hotel.

Supported by: Arts Council Norway, The Audio Visual Fund, The Fund for Performing Artists, Vlaamse Gemeenschapscommissie and the Norwegian Ministry for Foreign Affairs/MFA (travel grant/performing arts).

Sources:

BIT Teatergarasjen, spring program 2012. 19.01.2012: http://bit-teatergarasjen.no/sesongprogram/heine-avdal-and-yukiko-shinozaki-norge-japan-nothing-s-for-something/

Avant Garden, avantgarden.no, 07.09.2012, http://www.avantgarden.no/program/nothings-for-something/

Performance dates
September 17, 2016 Show
September 16, 2016 Show
April 24, 2014Barakat Building / Beit Beirut Show
March 28, 2014La Casa Encendida Show
January 27, 2014Maison de la culture d'Amiens, Frankrike Show
January 18, 2014 Show
July 10, 2013 19:00 – Seitenbühne Show
July 9, 2013 22:00 – Seitenbühne Show
October 31, 2012 20:00 – Teatern, Inkonst Show
September 14, 2012Store scene Black Box Teater (Marstrandgata) Show
September 13, 2012Store scene Black Box Teater (Marstrandgata) Show
September 12, 2012Store scene Black Box Teater (Marstrandgata) Show
September 9, 2012 20:00 – Olavshallen, Lille sal Show
September 8, 2012 21:00 – Olavshallen, Lille sal Show
April 29, 2012 19:00 – Studio Bergen, Carte Blanche Show
April 28, 2012 19:00 – Studio Bergen, Carte Blanche National premiere, Norway
March 24, 2012 20:30 – Kaaitheater Show
March 23, 2012 20:30 – Kaaitheater Worldwide premiere
Festivals (6)
SAND-festivalen September 16, 2016
Beirut International Dance Platform April 24, 2014
PNEU Festival January 18, 2014
Foreign Affairs July 9, 2013
Ultima September 12, 2012
Bastard - Trondheim International Performing Arts Festival September 8, 2012