Hannisdal & Hafslund // Cloaca Maxima
Dance performance that addresses overconsumption, value systems and their ideals of beauty. By Maja Hannisdal and Natalie Price Hafslund.
In Cloaca Maxima you are invited down into a seemingly infinite, sub-level-sewage universe. Down here, beneath our everyday lives, the excess of our consumerism - both material and psychological - gathers a living fatberg, threatening to collapse our comfort. In the sewer, a two headed creature is bubbling and oozing. A new eerie and potentially threatening intelligence is evolving, feeding on latent memories, nostalgia, trash glamour and the delicious fat from the world above.
The world's biggest fatberg was discovered in 2017 under Whitechapel Road in the sewers of London. The colossal fatberg weighed in at a staggering 130 tons, and was the size of 20 elephants consisting mainly of cooking fat and wet wipes. This startling discovery sets the tone for the greasy glow of the Cloaca underworld. In this performance both physical and psychological over consumption is in focus. Could there be a “psychological sewer” where the excess of our constant information flow is stored and creates trouble?
Cloaca Maxima is a performance by Maja Hannisdal and Natalie Price Hafslund with original music by Guoste Tamulynaite. Hannisdal and Price Hafslund experiment on a knife's edge between fascination and critique, exploring over-consumption of information, value systems and their beauty ideals.
Named after one of the world's earliest sewer systems in Rome, presided over by deities Cloacina and Venus, Cloaca Maxima contemplates what might happen where the seemingly unwanted collects and begins to swirl…
Maja Hannisdal
Maja Hannisdal (1989) is a videographer and dance artist based in Oslo. Hannisdal’s work balance between documentation and theatre, the private and public, the beautiful and the grotesque. It revolves around her interest for the seemingly irrelevant, the unwanted and down prioritised, and is concerned with investigating hierarchies within different value systems.
Natalie Price Hafslund
Natalie Price Hafslund (1987) is a British-Norwegian visual artist and writer based between Fjørtoft and Paris. Often linguistic, her works interplay between imagination, language, memory and meaning. Price Hafslund is interested in how we construct ourselves, how we connect to each other and to what extent we have control over that. In her live performances, she explores a constant flow of found material, memories and associations by creating magical and unsettling personas.
Guoste Tamulynaite
Guoste Tamulynaite (1992) is an Oslo-based pianist and composer. In her projects, Guoste works with movement, voice, and objects, and in some cases self-produced costumes and scenography. Her works can be described as minimalistic as well as surrealistic. Guoste works with repetition, banality, and sentimentality in her music, using sounds taken from nature, mixed with both acoustic and electronic instruments.
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Friday 24. October 2025 Kl. 19:30This show is played
