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ØIT (soon to be Østfold Teater) invites you to an open artist talk with Vera Kopfauf and Nora Köhler from the Austrian company KRA. They are artists in recidence with us this week, working on their project. "Mission Arnold Schwarzenegger" deals with topics such as car culture, community - and who actually saves the world.
KRA will present excerpts from their work in progress and a performative lecture in English. Free admission. Welcome!
ABOUT
KRA creates interdisciplinary projects that balance between theatre, satire, and political action. In their work, they push the boundaries between fiction and reality, using humor to challenge established narratives. Who actually gets to save the world? Who is heard? And which stories do we believe?
"Mission Arnold Schwarzenegger" will be an interactive performance in public space - and a live film shoot. In each city, KRA creates a new episode: written, rehearsed, and filmed together with the people and stories they encounter.
The project is one of the first ten to receive financial support through IN SITU PLATFORM, a four-year EU-funded project that promotes the careers of emerging performing artists working in public space.
- As aging male leaders continue to cast themselves as heroic figures, Mission Arnold Schwarzenegger examines why society remains so willing to believe in them, despite their failures. We explore why we keep returning to these stories, and how they shape our cultural response to crisis, KRA explains.
Their exaggerated ambition is to save the world, which serves as an artistic tool, allowing them to critically engage with power structures and savior narratives. Their performances often take place in non-theatrical spaces, disrupting traditional audience dynamics and recontextualising social issues through participatory storytelling. Humor and playfulness are central to their practice, but always as a means to reveal deeper structural questions.
Read more at
https://oit.no/produksjon/mission-arnold-schwarzenegger/?lang=en
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