Woolgathering, like daydreaming or gathering thoughts and ideas. How to make that happen…

A big pile of wool walking into the space, a library full of people, tables, coffee cups and water glasses. I was rolling around, climbing, walking and jumping. Becoming different creatures and forms while singing and using my voice to my movements. Wool is a wonderful material that has layered meanings and symbolics, and on top of this it is living and organic, almost like it can move on it´s own. I love th magic I can do inside a pile of wool.

Sometimes I can be completely teary-eyed with excitement over art. Like when Marita tumbles around among disciplined seminar participants like an erratic monster from nature, embodied by a giant pile of sheep's wool, and alternately coos softly, roars and sings a yoik, and fights her way between the café tables while people scurry away and rescue coffee cups and candlesticks in a hurry. It's a wonderful picture of encounters with nature, which we should partly observe attentively, partly be careful, partly fear and partly enjoy to the fullest. It's nice to be reminded that art is best when it tips us off balance. Thank you so much Marita Isobel, for a fantastic opening at ØyePå 2022! I'm so glad you didn't get a heatstroke inside the wool."

Oda Bahr

I am performing at ØyePå, Arbeideren in Kabelvåg during LIAF 2022.