JULES FISCHER
OPEN CALL
LESIONS
Looking for Oslo-based performers for new performances!
This opportunity is for a number of professional performers who are familiar with dance, choreography, scores, live composition and lip-syncing text material. All genders, styles and disciplines are welcome. You should be able to pick up both text and movement material quickly and enjoy contributing to an open and score-based process.
We are also looking for trans masculine and/or non-binary performers for a durational art piece. All skill levels, transition stages and gender expressions are welcome. The only requirements are that you like to perform and ‘be on stage’, and that you are up for performing for longer periods of time (2–4 hours at a time). The piece is an intimate situation using gaze, eating ice cream and casual touch, but does not involve nudity or sexual acts.
Practical information
Rehearsals will take place during daytimes in Oslo between 2 and 12 September 2024.
Time requirement: 4–6 days for professional performers; 1 day for performers for the durational piece. If necessary, rehearsals for the durational piece can be scheduled outside work hours.
It is possible to apply for both roles.
Performances will take place at UKS between 13 September and 19 October 2024 on selected Fridays and Saturdays.
This is a paid job with salary according to local freelance taxes. Unfortunately, we are not able to cover travel or accommodation costs, so performers must be located in Oslo during the production period.
How to apply
Please send a short video introduction of max. 5 mins. Include a little bit about yourself, your experience as a performer and why you want to take part in the piece. If relevant, attach a portfolio and CV.
Deadline for applications is 28 July 2024.
Send your application and any questions to Jules Fischer at teamsupertender@gmail.com.
The performance-based exhibition LESIONS is about the pain of loving and the systems of gender production. One part of the project is concerned with hormones, gender-affirming surgery and the systems that police and construct both gender and sex. Another deals with the intimacy and challenges of loving and being loved. The performance is shown at UKS in collaboration with CODA Oslo International Dance Festival.
This opportunity is for a number of professional performers who are familiar with dance, choreography, scores, live composition and lip-syncing text material. All genders, styles and disciplines are welcome. You should be able to pick up both text and movement material quickly and enjoy contributing to an open and score-based process.
We are also looking for trans masculine and/or non-binary performers for a durational art piece. All skill levels, transition stages and gender expressions are welcome. The only requirements are that you like to perform and ‘be on stage’, and that you are up for performing for longer periods of time (2–4 hours at a time). The piece is an intimate situation using gaze, eating ice cream and casual touch, but does not involve nudity or sexual acts.
Practical information
Rehearsals will take place during daytimes in Oslo between 2 and 12 September 2024.
Time requirement: 4–6 days for professional performers; 1 day for performers for the durational piece. If necessary, rehearsals for the durational piece can be scheduled outside work hours.
It is possible to apply for both roles.
Performances will take place at UKS between 13 September and 19 October 2024 on selected Fridays and Saturdays.
This is a paid job with salary according to local freelance taxes. Unfortunately, we are not able to cover travel or accommodation costs, so performers must be located in Oslo during the production period.
How to apply
Please send a short video introduction of max. 5 mins. Include a little bit about yourself, your experience as a performer and why you want to take part in the piece. If relevant, attach a portfolio and CV.
Deadline for applications is 28 July 2024.
Send your application and any questions to Jules Fischer at teamsupertender@gmail.com.
The performance-based exhibition LESIONS is about the pain of loving and the systems of gender production. One part of the project is concerned with hormones, gender-affirming surgery and the systems that police and construct both gender and sex. Another deals with the intimacy and challenges of loving and being loved. The performance is shown at UKS in collaboration with CODA Oslo International Dance Festival.
ICHOR
2023
ICHOR
20 min.
In a room smelling like a faint memory of something beautiful the three performers struggle with their equal despise and desire for individualism, power, loneliness and being loved. Words are all over them. How to build one self? How to maintain opacity and yet find the intimacy of being part of something good? They are dressed in pieces of fabric with slogans and statements combined into perfect collages of residue. An overflow of thought and capitalism, once t-shirts, then rags for cleaning pipes in oil engines, now a garment that seems to tell us more accurately who we are, than we could have imagined.
Ichor is an ethereal fluid that makes up the blood of the gods and is toxic to humans. In pathology the word was previously a term for the foul-smelling, watery fluid from a wound.
Performance & sound design: Jules Fischer
Costumes and props: Puer Parasitus
Scent design: Lisbeth Jacobsen/odor&fumes
Visual elements: Anna Ørberg
Performers: Escarleth Poza, Ingeborg Meier &
Snorre Elvin
Voice: Susanne Sachsse
20 min.
In a room smelling like a faint memory of something beautiful the three performers struggle with their equal despise and desire for individualism, power, loneliness and being loved. Words are all over them. How to build one self? How to maintain opacity and yet find the intimacy of being part of something good? They are dressed in pieces of fabric with slogans and statements combined into perfect collages of residue. An overflow of thought and capitalism, once t-shirts, then rags for cleaning pipes in oil engines, now a garment that seems to tell us more accurately who we are, than we could have imagined.
Ichor is an ethereal fluid that makes up the blood of the gods and is toxic to humans. In pathology the word was previously a term for the foul-smelling, watery fluid from a wound.
Performance & sound design: Jules Fischer
Costumes and props: Puer Parasitus
Scent design: Lisbeth Jacobsen/odor&fumes
Visual elements: Anna Ørberg
Performers: Escarleth Poza, Ingeborg Meier &
Snorre Elvin
Voice: Susanne Sachsse
IT DOESN’T LOOK LIKE ANYTHING TO ME
2022
IT DOESN’T LOOK LIKE ANYTHING TO ME
30 min.
The title refers to the sci-fi series Westworld. The phrase is a fail-save response to encounters which make the hosts (robots) question their own reality. (In the setting of an Art Fair one might wonder who are hosts and who are guests?)
The movement material is searching for vulnerability and softness in found material from sports, movies, folk dance and everyday gestures. The fragments are looped and mixed with phrases developed by the performers into a slow choreography. The piece is playing with ambivalence and illegibility as an escape from binaries, while questioning hegemony is a “natural” trait.
Choreography: Jules Fischer
Performers: Andreas Haglund, Beck Heiberg, Jupiter Child, Sall Lam Toro
Composer: Josefine Opsahl
Cello: Hrafnhildur Marta Guðmundsdóttir
Costumes: Camilla Lind
Comissioned for Enter art fair 2022 as part of the program Tales of love and fight curated by Irene Campolmi.
30 min.
The title refers to the sci-fi series Westworld. The phrase is a fail-save response to encounters which make the hosts (robots) question their own reality. (In the setting of an Art Fair one might wonder who are hosts and who are guests?)
The movement material is searching for vulnerability and softness in found material from sports, movies, folk dance and everyday gestures. The fragments are looped and mixed with phrases developed by the performers into a slow choreography. The piece is playing with ambivalence and illegibility as an escape from binaries, while questioning hegemony is a “natural” trait.
Choreography: Jules Fischer
Performers: Andreas Haglund, Beck Heiberg, Jupiter Child, Sall Lam Toro
Composer: Josefine Opsahl
Cello: Hrafnhildur Marta Guðmundsdóttir
Costumes: Camilla Lind
Comissioned for Enter art fair 2022 as part of the program Tales of love and fight curated by Irene Campolmi.
VANITAS (the musical)
2022
VANITAS (the musical)
45 min.
A performance about the feelings of change. Set in a basement we move through figures and relations to let parts of our selfes die in order to find our way. Making space for grief and sadness VANITAS aimes to let us proces a life filled with the fear of rejection.
Choreography, installation & sound design: Jules Fischer
Performers: Andreas Haglund, Ani Bigum Kampe, Julienne Doko & Kai Merke
Composer: Matilde Böcher
Costumes: Camilla Lind
Shown at Den Frie Udstillingsbygning as part of the program TOASTER.
45 min.
A performance about the feelings of change. Set in a basement we move through figures and relations to let parts of our selfes die in order to find our way. Making space for grief and sadness VANITAS aimes to let us proces a life filled with the fear of rejection.
Choreography, installation & sound design: Jules Fischer
Performers: Andreas Haglund, Ani Bigum Kampe, Julienne Doko & Kai Merke
Composer: Matilde Böcher
Costumes: Camilla Lind
Shown at Den Frie Udstillingsbygning as part of the program TOASTER.