| Title | File type | Publiseringsdato | Download |
|---|---|---|---|
| Program for De Utvalgte's production Bang-Bang Club (2005) and the ten year anniversary folder for De Utvalgte | 2005 | Download |
Kultur* (Culture)
Kultur* (Culture) was a result of the Inter-Scandinavian cooperation between Norwegian theatre company De Utvalgte and selected Swedish and Danish artists. The basis was Oscar Wilde’s seducing, detestable and not least contemporary relevant novel character Dorian Gray: The man without a core, the aesthetic bulimic rotting in his own sick urge to be pleased, doomed by his need for unchangeable youth, admiration and perfection.
Kultur was the third part of De Utvalgte’s Dorian Gray cycle.
*Not yet translated into English. The title within parentheses is the Norwegian title's literal meaning.
Information
(Objekt ID 12)| Object type | Production |
| Produced by | De Utvalgte, , Ensemble 2000, Salvatore |
| Based on | The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde |
| Audience | Youth, Adults |
| Language | Norwegian |
| Keywords | Tour, Multidisciplinary, Performance, Concert, Movie |
| Website | De Utvalgte |
Kultur by De Utvalgte became a guided tour in aesthetic upbringing, acceptance addiction and designed identity. Wilde’s original text was removed, but his enormous admiration and contempt for the magic of materialism and his exploration of the surface and the superfluous was kept.
"I am finding it harder and harder every day to live up to my blue china", Oscar Wilde said.
As an address for the day the project had chosen Villa Stenersen, the gem of the National sausage, donated to the Norwegian state by Rolf Stenersen and meant to be used as a home for the Prime Minister. All of the Norwegian Prime Ministers except for one (Odvar Nordli) has refused to move in. The extravagant functionalist villa was the backdrop for an afternoon of inflamed revelations and sensational flattery.
Kultur was the result of an Inter-Scandinavian cooperation between the theatre company De Utvalgte (N), media artist Joachim Hamou (S), Teater Laika (S), the contemporary music ensemble Ensemble 2000 (DK) and scholar Erling Dokk Holm (N, author of several books about consumer culture), art historian Eirik Bøe, and musicians from the bands Palace of Pleasure and Salvatore.
Source: De Utvalgte, deutvalgte.no, 23.08.2010, http://www.deutvalgte.no/kultur/En.html