Centarium
2018 – 2020
Performances, interventions and films.
Mo i Rana, Norway.
This umbrella project examines the Norwegian shopping center as a cultural, social, and political phenomena. Norway today has the most square meters of shopping center per inhabitant in Europe. Namely 926 square meters per 1000 inhabitant, equaling almost 1 square meter of shopping center per person.
Centarium is performed and filmed mainly during normal opening hours, with the centers’, at times, identical spaces as the stage and scenography. Performers, employees and visitors are given tasks and scripts to trigger new content and intentions for these spaces which, in turn, creates the raw material for the resulting film work.
This umbrella project examines the Norwegian shopping center as a cultural, social, and political phenomena. Norway today has the most square meters of shopping center per inhabitant in Europe. Namely 926 square meters per 1000 inhabitant, equaling almost 1 square meter of shopping center per person.
Centarium is performed and filmed mainly during normal opening hours, with the centers’, at times, identical spaces as the stage and scenography. Performers, employees and visitors are given tasks and scripts to trigger new content and intentions for these spaces which, in turn, creates the raw material for the resulting film work.