03:08:38 - States of Emergency

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03:08:38 - States of Emergency (2019) is a performing arts production by Transiteatret-Bergen, based on a concept by Tore Vagn Lid. This is a project spanning over several years, with work-in-progress presentations, called etudes, along the way. The complete version had its world premiere during Arctic Arts Festival in 2019.

Tore Vagn Lid directed it.

June 22 2019, an online version with listening posts opened for audiences in Bergen and Trondheim was performed. June 23, the stage version had its premiere in Nordic Hall in Harstad. The project has later been performed at Det Vestnorske Teatret in Bergen and at Vega Scene in Oslo.

A fully digital version was performed during the corona crisis in 2020. You may read more about that here.

03:08:38 - States of Emergency was nominated for The Hedda Award 2020 in the production of the year category. The team behind it won the award in the best audiovisual design category: Tore Vagn Lid for the audiovisual design, composition and music, Anders Elsrud Hultgreen (camera), Øystein Nesheim, Arvid Pettersen, Fredrik Rysjedal and Tor Christian Bleikli (light) for the visual effects film, drawing and light, Mathias Grønsdal for the sound and Terje Isungset and Per Jørgensen for the music.

Tore Vagn Lid won The Hedda Award 2020 in the special artistic achievement category for the project.

Information

(Objekt ID 92984)
Object type Production
Premiere June 22, 2019
Produced by Tore Vagn Lid/Transiteatret Bergen
In collaboration with Det Vestnorske Teateret, Norwegian Centre for New Playwriting (NCNP)
Keywords Musical theatre, Multimedia
Running period June 22, 2019  
Website Transiteatret-Bergen
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Transiteatret-Bergen writes the following, among other things, about 03:08:38 - States of Emergency:

"This production does not take place just in the festival town of Harstad, but also - and at the same time - in two other places: In the 'control room' at Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim, the audience sits with active performers from the production. And at the artistic venue 'Wrap' in Bergen, the doors are opened at the exact same time as the same happens in Trondheim. This is not streamed theatre: None of the venues are outside of, or beyond, the space, but are independent parts of the expanded scenographic meeting point of the performance."

The Hedda Jury gave the following reason for the special artistic achievement award to Tore Vagn Lid:

"With this year's award, the jury wants to honour an artist for his distinct performing arts project, realised with consequence in a form developed into what one must almost call a personal genre. With inspiration from one of the twentieth century's great playwrights, among others, and with a particular emphasis on the theatre's auditive potential, the award winner has combined artistic innovation and political engagement, as is clearly documented in this season's prominent work: 03:08:38, a stage and auditive examination of the three hours when the political terror came to Norway.

The special artistic achievement award this year goes to Tore Vagn Lid for the artistic direction of the project 03:08.38 - States of Emergency - Transiteatret-Bergen in collaboration with Det Vestnorske Teateret and Vega Scene."

The Hedda Jury gave the following reason for the best audiovisual design award:

"The stories of our time make the strongest impressions when they, like the fairytales of the past, gives room for reflection and recognition. This is such a story. In the way the art of the moment is stretched in time and challenged by space, one can barely see how the smallest analogue or technological detail could have been let go of.

With a miniature world at the core, the winner allows tiny parts to grow into a decentralised monumental work surrounding memories of and form our own time; painful, beautiful and irrevocable. And for every light diode and every musical anchor, the spectator grows increasingly connected to the piece's irreversible vision.

With the precise fingerspitzengefühl of a musical conductor, the director lets lighting and sound designers, musicians, photographers, visual artists and technicians carry a documentary reconstruction with theatre at its fundament, a deepgoing art work about ourselves at a given time: July 22, 2011."

SOURCES:

Import from the Scenekunst.no list of openings 14.06.2019

Transiteatret-Bergen, www.transiteatret.no, 14.06.2019, https://www.transiteatret.no/03-08-38-tilstander-av-unntak

Arctic Arts Festival, festspillinn.no, 19.06.2019
http://festspillnn.no/program/2019/030838-tilstander-av-unntak-no

The Hedda Award, www.heddaprisen.no, 16.07.20, https://www.heddaprisen.no/nominerte/2020

The Hedda Award, heddaprisen.no, 21.09.2020, https://www.heddaprisen.no/vinnere/2020

Performance dates
September 4, 2021Vega Scene, Vega Scene AS Show
September 3, 2021Vega Scene, Vega Scene AS Show
September 2, 2021Vega Scene, Vega Scene AS Show
September 1, 2021Vega Scene, Vega Scene AS Show
January 31, 2020Vega Scene, Vega Scene AS Show
January 30, 2020Vega Scene, Vega Scene AS Show
June 23, 2019 15:00 Show
June 22, 2019 15:00 Worldwide premiere
Festivals (1)
Arctic Arts Festival June 22, 2019