TORE VAGN LID & TRANSITEATRET-BERGEN
"03:08.38 States of Emergency"
By Tore Vagn Lid
03:08:38 – States of Emergency
03:08:38 – States of Emergency is a real-time reconstruction of the afternoon of 22 July 2011, centred on a composition of authentic radio broadcasts and audio recordings from that day. Against this sonic backdrop, a team of visual artists, filmmakers and musicians creates live interpretations of the unfolding events. Among the contributing artists are renowned percussionist Terje Isungset, visual artist Arvid Pettersen, and illustrator Fredrik Rysjedal. A specially assembled choir also forms part of the performance.
Three hours, eight minutes and thirty-eight seconds was the time it took for a young man to bomb Norway's government quarter before travelling to the island of Utøya, where he systematically murdered young participants at a Labour Party youth camp.
How did the world respond? What was being reported beyond Norway's borders? How did different societies and individuals react—not in retrospect, but in the midst of a genuine state of emergency, when no one yet knew the full scale of the attack, its causes, or its motives? When speculation spread in every direction; when Facebook profile pictures were replaced by national symbols; when long-suppressed political prejudices surfaced in public discourse?
Following a series of studies and work-in-progress presentations in, among other places, Frankfurt and Fjaler, an online premiere of 03:08:38 was broadcast during the Arctic Arts Festival (Festspillene i Nord-Norge) on 22 June 2019. Audiences experienced the performance from listening stations in the Control Room at NTNU in Trondheim and at Totalarena Wrap in Bergen.
The production was met with critical acclaim:
"It becomes a meditative ritual through which we can return to the day Norway experienced its greatest national trauma since the Second World War. How did individuals and the nation cope with this 'state of emergency'? Can we ever prepare ourselves for the unthinkable?"
— Olav Gorseth, Bergensavisen, 22 June 2019
"The performance appears remarkably sophisticated, while the effects, visual language and drawings remain sparse, simple and strikingly effective."
— Charlotte Myrbråten, Norsk Shakespeare- og teatertidsskrift, No. 2/2019
The stage version premiered in Bergen at Det Vestnorske Teatret on 15 January 2020, followed by performances at Vega Scene in Oslo from 28–31 January 2020.
Read the full programme text here.
UPDATE
03:08:38 – States of Emergency (Version #4)
Presented in Potsdam and Berlin, 7–10 November 2024.
TIDLIGERE FORESTILLINGER
03:08:38 - TILSTANDER AV UNNTAK (BERGENSVERSJON):
DET VESTNORSKE TEATERET
ONSDAG 15 JANUAR KL 18:00 (BERGENSPREMIERE)
TORDAG 16. JANUAR KL 18:00
FREDAG 17. JANUAR KL 18:00
LØRDAG 18. JANUAR kl 15:00
03:08:38 - TILSTANDER AV UNNTAK (OSLOVERSJON):
VEGA SCENE
TORSDAG 30. JANUAR KL 19:00 (OSLOPREMIERE)
FREDAG 31. JANUAR KL 19:00
LYTTEPOSTER
BERGEN: Paviljongen på Møllendal (Ved møllendalsveien 60)
TORSDAG 30.1 og FREDAG 31.1 KL 19:00
TRONDHEIM: LITTERATURHUSET I TRONDHEIM
FREDAG 31.1. KL 19:00
LIVE SENDING (30.1 og 31.1. kl 19:00)
Credits:
03:08:38 Tilstander av unntak av Tore Vagn Lid (Versjon #3)
Medvirkende:
Audiovisuelt konsept og regi: Tore Vagn Lid
Scenografi: Øystein Nesheim / Tore Vagn Lid
Kameraføring: Anders Elsrud Hultgreen
Kamerateam/aktører: Tor Christian F. Bleikli (lys/research), Øystein Nesheim (live tegning)
Tegnere: Øystein Nesheim, Arvid Pettersen, Fredrik Rysjedal, Håkon Fyhn
Komponister: Tore Vagn Lid / Terje Isungset
Teknikk/ Audiovisuell avvikling: Mathias Grønsdahl
Lyddesign: Tore Vagn Lid / Morten Skage / Mathias Grønsdahl
Musikere: Terje Isungset, Tore Vagn Lid
Sangere: Idar Aaserud Løvlid, Hilde Annine Hasselberg, Rolf J Stewart, Tora Kristiane Finne, Karl Reksten, Daniela Iancu Johannessen.
Arrangement av Franz Schuberts «Strykekvartett Døden & Jomfruen» No.14 / Strykekvintett D 956) /Pierre De La Ruhe O Salutaris Hostia : Tore Vagn Lid
Research: Øystein Nesheim, Tor Christian F. Bleikli, Tore Vagn Lid
Lyttepost Bergen (i samarbeid med Wrap Arts Centre):
Scenografi: Helle Bendixen
Trompet/sang: Per Jørgensen
Bass: Morten Skage
Sangere: Ingvill Espedal, Alexandra Bobrow, Alexander Fiske Fosse, Erling Hannaas, Stian Jebsen
Teknikk: Leo Oran Preston
Vertskap: Veronica Thorseth
Kamera: Amir Ajdinovic
Research-team Tyskland (internasjonale sendinger):
Saija Kontio, Anna Neudert, Agnes Fink, Maíra Wiener, Ching Wen Peng, Julia Forgacs, Insa Peters, Xiaofen Wang, Alexandra Finder, Julia Salzmann, Ivana Mitric, Dennis Hoss, Helene Röhnsch, Ozi Ozar, Anja Schneidereit, Angelina Stross, Fabian Mauderer, Anne-Laure Thumerel.
Research-team Trondheim:
Forskergruppen CTRLnet (NTNU) ved Jens Røyrvik, Haakon Fyhn, Barbro Rønning, Petter Grytten Almklov, m.fl.
Produsert av Transiteatret-Bergen i samarbeid med:
Det Vestnorske Teateret, Wrap Arts Centre, Dramatikkens hus, Festspillene i Nord-Norge, Teaterfestivalen i Fjaler, Institutt for medievitenskap W. Goethe Universitet, (Frankfurt a.Main) og Vega Scene.
Produsent: Transiteatret-Bergen v/ Tor Christian F. Bleikli
Informasjonsansvarlig: Ingvild Bræin
Inspisient: Kikkis Holmås
Støttet av Norsk kulturråd, Fond for lyd og bilde, Hordaland fylkeskommune, Bergen kommune.