The Norwegian performer and choreographer Mette Edvardsen installs a comprehensive library at METEOR’s festival centre in Visningsrommet USF. The library consists of three parts: More than a 130 books that since 2010 has been learned by heart and recited to individual audience members in the performance Time has fallen asleep in the afternoon sunshine. Secondly, a shadow library of books that might be memorised in the future, plus a reference library with books relating to interests within the project, including publications made and published by the project.
In 2010 Edvardsen started the performance project Time has fallen asleep in the afternoon sunshine, in which a group of people dedicate themselves to memorising a book of their choice. Together they form a library of ‘living books’. Since then, readings have taken place as intimate one-to-one encounters where the ‘book’/performer recites its content for the ‘reader’/audience. Thanks to the hosting venues, BIT being one of them, the project gradually grew in scope to where it is today: a library, a bookshop, a publishing house, over 130 living books in 20 different languages across Europe and beyond, workshops, an exhibition format, lectures and talks. And underlying all this is an ongoing practice of making time to memorise and read out loud to each other and visiting readers.
Come browse in the afternoon sunshine!
