Get your feelers on! The shrimp show is a performing arts project with an almost totally anthropocentric focus. The lab explore the shrimp as individuals trapped by the commercialization of natural resources. How are those little guys doing anyway? We will set up a company that exploits a natural resource from the sea: the shrimp and their relatives. How does one get the rights to use the fjord for commercial purposes anyway?
The performing artists will become shrimp fishermen! This was a good living at one time. Can we catch some? Enough for dinner? Enough to sell?
The workshop will combine active research, both in the field and in the digital world and explore how to bring that into performance. We will also be exploring puppets, masks and costumes, using basic designs to begin creating characters.
We will be on boats. We will sometimes get wet. Just like a shrimp.
Participants: Marte Ekhougen, Emilie Beske, Sara Karoline Steinmoen, August Geerlings, Alice Presencer, Emma Stocke, Maria Karoline Aronsen, Kristine Heum, Marie Longva Danielsen, Anna Peterson, Kristian Grennes
Artistic leader: Gwendolyn Warnock and Kirjan Waage from Wakka Wakka
Project leaders: Elise Austad, Tilde Jonasson and Magnus Sparsaas
Supported by: Kulturrådet, Agder Fylkeskommune, Arendal Kommune, Bergesenstiftelsen, Driftsstøtte Arendal kommune
