Sonic Scenography Episode #9: Panopticon
This week´s episode features a conversation with Håvve Fjell, who talks about his involvement with the project Slipp Botsen Fri (Set Botsen Free), which aims to transform Oslo´s former jail into a multi-disciplinary arts and culture venue. The conversation is followed by field recordings made by Rachel outside Oslo and Haldern prisons. Sonic Scenography is a series of twelve radio broadcasts by artist Rachel Dagnall about the experience of incarceration. The theme is explored through non-verbal sound or sonic scenographies composed by former inmates in Beirut, Syria, the Mojave Desert, Oslo, Berlin and Barcelona. The project aims to showcase artistic expressions about prison, surveillance and imposed mental and physical demarcation, and illustrate how such experiences distort or change our interpretation of space and immediate surroundings. Actors move and create images of one specific place - both physical and mental - in the form of musical performances, physical movements, readings, conversations and more, with the use of resonance bringing a specific focus to the different rooms in which this takes place. Sonic Scenography is commissioned by and produced in collaboration with Radio Tenthaus and forms Rachel’s Master project at the Norwegian Theatre Academy in Fredrikstad, Østfold.