Credits: Jörg Landsberg. Obsessions at Theater Bremen, 2022. Left: Karin Enzler, Alice Ferl, Matthieu Svetchine, Annika Tudeer, Nerita Nerita Pokvytyte.
Credits: Alice Ferl
working together apart in space
One of the key necessities to develop together in Oblivia always has been: spending time together in the same space. Enough of it. Physically. In the studio, some rehearsal stage or stage, in the kitchen during breaks, on the… Read moreCredits: Anna-Maija Terävä
Beautiful Blur
When working in Oblivia the amount of the elements sometimes exceeds my scope. When trying to focus on what is essential, it seems like there is often something clear and sharp in the middle but also a lot of… Read moreCredits: Meri Ekola
Credits: Oblivia
Collective introduction to the blog theme ‘music theatre’
Fanfares! Haze! Applauds and confetti! With deep excitement, we, the Obsessions team introduce our personal relationships with music theatre – or how we experience it in February 2021. Welcome to the blog… Read moreCredits: Daniela Wolf
“Is it a decision, or something that just happens?”
This last February, Oblivia performed “Verdrängen, Verdrängen, Verdrängen,” a collaboration between the theater group and composer Yiran Zhao, at the Stuttgart ECLAT festival for new music. This was the first time the group had worked with a composer to… Read moreTo become part of, to be part of. Belonging.
I understand the need to shy away from the word collective as in the article of Bojana Cvejic from 2004. Some curators had perhaps lived in a collective, and felt the smell of lentil soup and the sight of… Read moreCredits: A still image from a documentation filmed by Christopher Hewitt.
On Improvisation
In this text I will try and describe some elements of improvisation in Oblivia. I don’t try to grab on improvisation as an art form or sort out different performance practices related to for example dance or theater improvisation.… Read moreOn Sharing
Tua Helve, costume designer, and Meri Ekola, light designer, discuss on sharing. Recorded at Pact Zollverein, Esssen, Germany in 2018.
Credits: Alice Ferl
List of Togetherness
Where do we store what we collect when we work collectively? Making something together that does not belong to… Read moreOn Collectivity
Annika Tudeer and Christian Koch. A discussion on collectivity, Pact Zollverein, Essen, Germany 2018.