Bring your own record / Listening party av PME-ART

The audience is invited to a small gathering where everyone can bring their own records or play music from their phone, and tell a story in a relaxed setting.
A record player and a stack of vinyl records. For each record there is at least one story to tell. The stories come from their own and others' lives, gossip, magazines, friends and strangers. One by one the records are put on, and the stories grow out of the previous one and into the next.

This performance is played over two evenings; on the first evening the impressive collection of records is played in random order, and the company tells the stories about them.

On the second evening the audience is invited to bring their own records, and tell their stories about them. This is evening two, which takes place in Rosendal Café.

Each performance the records are played in a new order. Each evening opens up to new stories, and the result is an astonishingly precise and heartwarming performance, a journey through art, politics and love, seen through songs they both love and hate.

The performance is part of PME-ART’s long-term exploration of hospitality, a work that examines how to create an open space for listening and community.

Bring Your Own Record/Listening Party

Audiences are invited to a small gathering where everyone can bring their own records or play music from their phone, and tell a story in a relaxed setting, in the same way that the performers from PME-ART do the night before, during The DJ Who Gave Too Much Information. Here, people can come together to listen, to think about what the songs do to us, and what we do with them.

Listening to music with friends and strangers is an activity that is characterized by politics, questions, personal experience and stories of all kinds. This project, which has now been performed for fifteen years, comes from PME-ART’s research on the theme of hospitality, about how to welcome the audience into a space to come together with the artists. It is an attempt to create an inviting, relaxed place where many different types of music open up countless directions in which humor and thought can move. This is PME-ART's most popular performance, and every year more records and stories are added, which go into a strange archive of the work.

Location: Rosendal Café
Duration: approx. 90 min
Language: English
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More info and content warning at https://rosendalteater.no/program/bring-your-own-record-listening-party