2025
Centre for Ceramic Art
Ringebu, Norway
Curators: Torbjørn Kvasbø and Ingunn Svanes Almedal
Photo: Giacomo Macrelli
Co-coreography: Grete Riseng and Beata Daria Kubecka
Thanks to: Vida Aasen og Nina A. Standerholen
Co-coreography: Grete Riseng and Beata Daria Kubecka
Thanks to: Vida Aasen og Nina A. Standerholen
This site-sensitive performance Lover, låver is rooted in Ringebu Parsonage and Stave Church— drawing on elements of its history and placement in the landscape. Through a physically demanding interaction with red clay, the path from the churchyard wall to the Parsonage’s main house and into the barn—now functioning as an exhibition space for Centre for Ceramic Art —is activated. The choreography is partly based on gestures from traditional ceramics and is performed with raw clay weighing as much as each performer’s own body.
The project was sparked by the story of Sigrid Gulbrandsdotter Brandstadkampen, who was executed in 1763, accused of killing her newborn child and hiding the body beneath the church steps. Her fate led me to question the church's control over women like her and explore the tension between emotional labor and physical farm work—those untold stories of women moving between the farm and the church, between the earthly and the sacred.
The performance was featured on the opening weekend for CAC 31.05.2025, marking the 5 year anniversary for the centre with the exhibition Kraftoverføring - Sidefortellinger i norsk keramikk fra 1895 - 2025. As part of my installation a film documenting the performance, clay on a wooden platform and risograph prints titled Lover, låver (snor) and Lover, låver (utmatte) are displayed in Trevet.
