Into the Blind Spots – Theatrical Approaches to the Terror Attacks in Norway 22 July 2011
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Siemke Böhnisch
Abstract
This article discusses theatrical approaches to the Norwegian terror attacks on 22 July 2011, in the context of a global digital screen culture. By engaging in a close reading of two of the earliest theatrical articulations on the 22 July emergency, the author examines how specific aesthetic strategies relate to the on-going cultural trauma process. The article shows how the stage-blog-project Ikkje direkte råka by Maria Tryti Vennerød (Oslo 2012) and the theatre performance Manifest 2083 by CaféTeatret (Copenhagen 2012) explore some of the blind spots in this process. The analyses focus on how the self-reflexive work of verbal articulation in Ikkje direkte råka and the embodying and staging in Manifest 2083 illuminate inherent ambivalences, paradoxes, and ambiguities in the cultural processes, as well as the complex relationship between the collective and the individual under the conditions of a digital online media world.
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