{"id":9383,"date":"2022-08-08T05:48:14","date_gmt":"2022-08-08T05:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/thinks-theater-about-climate-is-often-moralizing-and-tacky-climate-artist-reacts-news-culture-and-entertainment\/"},"modified":"2022-08-08T05:48:15","modified_gmt":"2022-08-08T05:48:15","slug":"thinks-theater-about-climate-is-often-moralizing-and-tacky-climate-artist-reacts-news-culture-and-entertainment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/thinks-theater-about-climate-is-often-moralizing-and-tacky-climate-artist-reacts-news-culture-and-entertainment\/","title":{"rendered":"Thinks theater about climate is often moralizing and tacky &#8211; climate artist reacts &#8211; news Culture and entertainment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8211; It often works quite poorly with climate as a theme in performances, says news&#8217;s \u200b\u200btheater reviewer Karen Fr\u00f8sland Nyst\u00f8yl.  In her review of &#8220;A midnight sun dream&#8221; earlier this year, she pointed out that the performance wanted too much at once &#8220;with a kind of climate backdrop&#8221;.  One of several examples of performances with an attached climate theme, she believes.  Climate is so important that it must be treated properly in art, says Karen Fr\u00f8sland Nyst\u00f8yl.  Photo: JAVIER ERNESTO AURIS CHAVEZ \/ news &#8211; It is a very important subject, of course.  But it shouldn&#8217;t be &#8220;decoration on the cake&#8221; just because it&#8217;s a current topic.  It happens all too often, especially in performances aimed at the youngest.  &#8211; The children do not need a lot of ideas about the climate, just because it is an important topic.  They know that climate is important.  Furthermore, the climate challenges are not the children&#8217;s fault, says Fr\u00f8sland Nyst\u00f8yl.  Climate artist reacts Abigael Winsvold does not like this form of argumentation.  She is a member of a group that calls itself &#8220;Acting for climate&#8221; &#8211; which only stages performances with climate as its theme.  &#8211; The more people who address climate and the environment in their performances, the better, says Winsvold.  &#8211; No matter what the artistic quality will be?  &#8211; There is always good and bad art.  But we have to make art about what is the big and precarious topic of our time.  The &#8220;Acting for climate&#8221; gang in action.  Abigael Winsvold is at the top of the picture.  Photo: Cosmin Cirstea The task of the theater She receives partial support from theater reviewer in Subjekt, Cornelius Condrup Steinkjer.  &#8211; One must be open to the fact that certain works of art have the primary desire to convey something about the climate, rather than to convey a strong artistic expression, he says.  Cornelius Condrup Steinkjer is a performing arts reviewer in the cultural newspaper Subjekt.  Photo: Aurora Henni Krogh &#8211; It is in the nature of the theater to take up themes like this, Steinkjer elaborates.  Fr\u00f8sland Nyst\u00f8yl also receives support &#8211; from someone who creates climate theater themselves.  Moralizing Teatergruppa Feil teater will soon premiere &#8220;Animals in Africa&#8221; \u200b\u200bat Vega Scene in Oslo.  The performance is based on Erlend Loe&#8217;s satirical book.  &#8211; Our goal with the performance is to address the climate crisis in a fresh and different way, because we found some climate art to be quite moralizing, says Sebastian Myers, who is an actor and producer for the performance.  &#8220;Animals in Africa&#8221; \u200b\u200bpremieres at Vega Scene on 19 August.  Sebastian Myers is the producer.  Photo: Christian Ingebrethsen &#8211; If you push a message on the public that we must save the planet, it probably creates more inaction than commitment, says Myers.  &#8211; So you are not setting up this show to do something about people&#8217;s attitude to the climate?  &#8211; No.  I don&#8217;t think the theater alone will solve the climate crisis.  But it is probably important to use the opportunities we have to raise the topic, he says.<br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nrk.no\/kultur\/mener-teater-om-klima-ofte-er-moraliserende-og-paklistret-_-klimakunstner-reagerer-1.16057650\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ttn-69 <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8211; It often works quite poorly with climate as a theme in performances, says news&#8217;s \u200b\u200btheater reviewer Karen Fr\u00f8sland Nyst\u00f8yl. 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