Just a wet mouth

April 8, 2019

The performing artists Katja Lindeberg and Madeleine Nilsen have attended a womb festival, delved into literature, searched their own gender play and searched for their inner - and outer - goddess in preparation for this performance. But first and foremost, they have listened to women, and now they are coming to Kloden i sentrum during Heddadagene in June.

Bare en våt munn is a documentary theater performance in which the newly established company Lindeberg/Nilsen examines Western culture's ideas about femininity. The material consists of some twenty in-depth interviews with women of different ages and backgrounds, autobiographical texts, gender symbolism and popular culture clichés. 

""Throughout my childhood and youth, the female community has been pushed down my head like a giant womb and I have very quickly become short of breath". This is what my companion at Thursday's last performance at Showbox, Just a Wet Mouth, wrote in an email the following day. She is a child of 1970s feminism and couldn't get away from it fast enough. But Thursday night at Black Box Theater, something happened: "In Just a Wet Mouth, I felt a sincere communion with these young women, all women, through all time. Finally, I could sink effortlessly into sisterhood, shame, pride, motherhood and closeness, together with all the women in the auditorium at that moment". The certificate in itself can stand as a statement about the relevance of the performance, but then there is also something about the way Katja Brita Lindeberg and Madeleine Nilsen do it." "In our quasi-free time, this work is, in my eyes, an artistic response to a collective and individual situation that cries out for this kind of open, uninhibited way of treating this knotty, taboo theme." - Chris Erichsen, Scenekunst.no

photo: Elisabeth Anker Jacobsen