Breakfast conversation with Maritea Dæhlin and Louis Schou-Hansen

Each season, Black Box teater invites the artist Maritea Dæhlin to curate and host breakfast conversations with invited guests. We serve a light breakfast, coffee and tea, and invite the audience to take part in the conversation. This time, Maritea Dæhlin has invited Louis Schou-Hansen. The conversation will be held in English.

● Maritea Dæhlin is an artist who works and lives in Norway and Mexico. Her work spans theatre, video performance, performance art, sound art, and stage text. Her artistic practice is characterized by multilingualism, non-linearity, and at times absurdity. Dæhlin was previously an associate artist at Black Box teater (2021–2022).

● Louis Schou-Hansen is a Danish artist, choreographer, and dancer based in Oslo. Their practice reflects on the body as a vulnerable and inconvenient site for fiction, shaped by desire, mortality, and self-destruction. Consciously positioned in the tangle between low and high culture, Schou-Hansen’s projects often engage with history and subversive history – particularly with an interest in early modern Europe – in order to twist and reanimate unresolved narratives about embodiment, and through this, create counter-narratives. Other interests include tracing some of the persistent remnants of colonial and anti-queer paradigms, and how these continue to invade contemporary lives.

Since 2024, they have been the initiator and curator of Mind Eater, together with Runa Borch Skolseg, an annual parasitic performance festival in Oslo focusing on emerging artists and critical discourse.