Research Catalogue

INGVILD HOLM is a theatre- and performance artist with a multidiscipline background in theatre, performance, actionist practices, writing and visual arts. She is a research fellow at Norwegian Theatre Academy (NTA) in the Norwegian Artistic Research Program (NARP) with SPACE AUTOMATISM (2015 – 2019), on what space and context do to content and method in theatre, where the method is to give space itself the protagonist role in performative or other visual disciplines, as well as text production, using anthropomorphisms and popular object-oriented traditions.

SPACE AUTOMATISM comments on structures, ideology, power and size, collectivity vs individuality, mainstream and clichés, but the works themselves are playfully ambiguous, and not always explicit political. The starting point is personal places like my theater space, my office, my institutions (NTA and NARP), my home and my plastic garbage, or based on invitations. My collective past, time, money, trends and structure is material and characteristics for the protagonists rather than limitations. As a no longer collective I’ve been interested in NTAs puppetry history, in object-oriented formats and artforms, and the concepts of the historical avant-garde’s art figures, über-marionettes, manikins, robots and automats, often derived from critical and popular forms. I’ve worked in hybrids where improvisation, dialogue and presence is central, and with elements from Commedia dell’arte, performance, installation, puppetry and comedy. I could call it expressive minimalism, post-spectacular, low or popular, or even vulgarly unpopular. I relate among others to the artists William Kentridge, Forced Entertainment, Heiner Goebbels and Buster Keaton, the authors Dag Solstad and Vigdis Hjort, filmmaker Charlie Kaufman and popstar David Bowie, and to thinkers as Marx, Mikhail Bakhtin, Hannah Arendt and Timothy Morton.

Website: https://www.ingvildholm.no