Ornate Saturation is the steady glide of a configuration turning itself inside out, collapsing, ornamenting, carving, gulping, destroying, and resurrecting itself.
The piece proceeds from the idea that sensory overload leads to numbness. Through bombarding the senses with fragmentary impressions, modern technology drugs the organism. The result is a simultaneity of overstimulation and numbness.
The performance emerges from the murky interstices of this overload, not born of clarity, but of the cognitive and bodily sludge left in the wake of information saturation. Out of this disorienting fog, a terrain takes shape, one created in the wake of sensory exhaustion.
Ornate Saturation is a speculation on this terrain – a field of assembled bodies, blurred boundaries, a mass that emits formatted embroideries while hunted by its own unruly forces.
Performed by three dancers, Ornate Saturation is the second piece in the choreographic series STUPOR.
● Rosalind Goldberg is a Norwegian-Swedish choreographer based in Oslo. She holds a PhD in artistic research from the Oslo National Academy of the Arts in Oslo, with the title: Choreography as a meaning-generating aggregate. Goldberg’s work explores processes of change and is characterized by a physical and conceptual approach to choreography, where the entanglement of the two directs the process. Her last production DIM was presented at Black Box teater Spring 2025.
Please note
The performance on Saturday 26 September will be filmed. Due to the seating arrangement, audience members may appear in the recording.
