Time Has Fallen Asleep in the Afternoon Sunshine: Lån en levende bok
*** NB: Etter klokken 11 samme dag, må plasser reserveres i respesjonen i første etasje på Sølvberget.
Det er ledige plasser! ***
*** Note: After 11 on the same day, living books are reserved in the library front desk on the first floor of Sølvberget.
There are free slots! ***
In English below
I Mette Edvardsens Time has fallen asleep in the afternoon sunshine lærer en gruppe utøvere seg en bok utenat. Sammen danner de en samling levende bøker. Bøkene tilbringer sin tid i et bibliotek, går omkring, snakker sammen, klare til å bli konsultert av en besøkende.
Bibliotekets besøkende velger en bok de vil lese, og boken tar leseren sin med til en plass eller et sted i biblioteket, i kafeen, eller en spasertur ute, mens de resiterer sitt innhold (eller mulige tolkninger).
Ideen til dette biblioteket av levende bøker kommer fra science-fiction romanen Fahrenheit 451(Ray Bradbury, 1953). Det er en framtidsvisjon over et samfunn der bøker er forbudte fordi de ansees som farlige, et samfunn hvor lykke skal oppnås i fravær av kunnskap og kritisk tenkning. Tallet 451 viser til temperaturen når papir begynner å brenne. Ettersom bøker er forbudte i dette samfunnet, oppstår en undergrunnsbevegelse av mennesker som lærer seg bøker utenat for å kunne bevare disse for fremtiden.
Reservér din levende bok til høyre på denne siden. Velg bok og deretter ledig tidspunkt.
Bøker i biblioteket:
- Elskeren – Marguerite Duras (på norsk)
- Sataniske vers – Salman Rushdie (på norsk)
- I am a Cat – Soseki Natsume (på engelsk)
- Pianolærerinnen – Elfriede Jelinek (på norsk)
- Fahrenheit 451 – Ray Bradbury (på svensk)
- Bartleby, the Scrivener – Herman Melville (på engelsk)
Presenteres i samarbeid med RIMI/IMIR Scenekunst.
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For ‘Time has fallen asleep in the afternoon sunshine’ a group of people/ performers memorize a book of their choice. Together they form a library collection consisting of living books. The books are passing their time in a library, sitting in chairs, walking around, talking together, looking out of the window, reading in paper-books from the shelves, ready to be consulted by a visitor. The visitors of the library choose a bookthey would like to read, and the book brings its reader to a place or setting in the library, in the cafeteria, or for a walk outside, while reciting its content (and possibly valid interpretations).
The idea for this library of living books comes from the science fiction novel Fahrenheit 451. It is a future vision of a society where books are forbidden because they are considered dangerous, that happiness must be obtained through an absence of knowledge and individual thought. The number 451 refers to the temperature at which book paper starts to burn. As books are forbidden in this society, an underground community of people learn books by heart in order to preserve them for the future.
Books are read to remember and written to forget. To memorise a book, or more poetically ‘to learn a book by heart’, is in a way a rewriting of that book. In the process of memorising, the reader for a moment steps into the place of the writer, or rather he/ she is becoming the book. Maybe the ability to learn a whole book by heart is relative to what book you choose, the time you invest, and perhaps your skills. But, however much or well you learn something by heart you have to keep practicing it otherwise you will forget it again. Perhaps by the time you reach the end you will have forgotten the beginning. Learning a book by heart is an ongoing activity and doing. There is nothing final or material to achieve, the practice of learning a book by heart is a continuous process of remembering and forgetting.
Reserve your session with a living books in the right column of this page. Choose title first, then an available time.
Books in the library:
- Elskeren – Marguerite Duras (på norsk)
- Sataniske vers – Salman Rushdie (på norsk)
- I am a Cat – Soseki Natsume (in English)
- Pianolærerinnen – Elfriede Jelinek (på norsk)
- Fahrenheit 451 – Ray Bradbury (på svensk)
- Bartleby, the Scrivener – Herman Melville (in English)
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concept: Mette Edvardsen
with: Marit Ødegaard, Kristine Øren, Martin Slaatto, Mari Matre Larsen, Kristien Van den Brande, Mette Edvardsen
production: Mette Edvardsen/ Athome & Manyone vzw
co-production: Kunstenfestivaldesarts (Brussels), DanceUmbrella (London), Dubbelspel (STUK Kunstencentrum & 30CC Leuven)
supported by: Norsk Kulturråd, Fond for Lyd og Bilde, Fond for Utøvende Kunstnere
special thanks to: Kaaitheater, Bibliothèque royale de Belgique/Koninklijke Bibliotheek van België