10.02.2024 13:30 - 17:00

Jenny Hval – I want to be a machine

Concert

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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.

Date Place Concert 1: Concert 2:

10.02.2024 13:30 - 17:00 Studio 13:30-14:30 (The doors open at 13:15) 16:00-17:00 (The doors open at 15:45)

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, -

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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.

Photo: Jenny Berger Myhre
Photo: Jenny Berger Myhre
Photo: Jenny Berger Myhre
Photo: Jenny Berger Myhre
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.

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.
Håvard Volden, Jenny Berger Myhre og Linn Nystadnes.