"FORTELLERORKESTERET" ("The Telling Orchestra") is a "live" room-installation that can be described in many ways: An audio-visual composition where rusty mechanics meets new technology on the backside of a "video-shadow-theatre" on Greenland.
A machine, a polyphonic instrument, or a whole orchestra with many voices and tunes, mutating shapes and interwoven stories. An electro-mechanical construction that functions as an audio-visual "animation- machine" or a mechanical figure-theatre machinery, where images, sculptures, sound and video is deeply integrated into each other to form an audio-visual-spatial composition. By use of computer controlled motors and robotics the primitive wooden construction of old weather-beaten planks has become an automatized sculpture-machine with the ability to in a second, totally transform the space in radical ways.

"THAT CORPSE YOU PLANTED LAST YEAR IN YOUR GARDEN, HAS IT BEGAN TO SPROUT,
WILL IT BLOOM THIS YEAR?"

"The Telling Orchestra" has gone through a constant development for almost three years and has become a very advanced and complex construction.
The original concept and choice of materials originate from a journey to Greenland in 2003. As the process went on the different medias that interplay started to generate
images and stories on their own - as if the construction itself was hinting to what it was capable of expressing. The installation has now become a true Telling Orchestra that can create extensive visual tales, mechanical ballets, mirror- and shadow plays. It can produce pure abstractions as well as concrete literary stories, psychological relations among motorized fragments of bones. Religious visions from the roadside, shipwrecks and machine romance, ... never ending.

"The Telling Orchestra" is made by: Asle Nilsen, Lisbeth J. Bodd, Håkon Lindbäck, Piotr Pajchel, Christian Blom. Others involved in the project: Rune Madsen, Bergmund Skaslien, Trond Lossius, HC
Gilje.

Verdensteatret is supported by Arts Council Norway. The participation at SYNTHETIC TIMES - MEDIA ART CHINA 2008 is supported by Office for Contemporary Art Norway.