Welcome to celebrate Advent X from 19.30
Friday July 25th Stix Omar and Bror Ida Lennartsson are hosting performance and Advent X evening at NKF guest studio
A Gravy Boat. A long, narrow jug used for serving gravy is an image that serves well to link Stix and Bror Idas works as they both talk about liquids, textures and gestures.
In Norway we have a tradition that the state funded tv channel screens a series starting on December 1st and running up until December 24th. When I say Advent Calendar this is what I am referring to, not the chocolate figurines in cardboard slots but I might do those for merch. The video episodes I'm making will be more experimental in terms of structure and content, and the fact that it is actually not really about Christmas?
When I was a kid, I had a talk show where I sang about Xmas all year around. I called the talk show Stine-timen. In 2022 I legally changed my name from Stine to Stix because I didnt feel at home in a girls name. The Advent Calendar will talk about choosing your family. About how celebrating Xmas with friends over family is a thing because so many people dont feel welcome or able to be themselves in the company of their biological family. The Advent Calendar will talk about expectation and tradition, family and disappointment. Possibly also about Conspiracy theories.
The concept of Christmas spirit (Julestemning in Norwegian) means different things to different people, as those who celebrate Xmas have different traditions and different traumas. I want to try to recreate the absurd element of the talk show I had as a kid by forcing the Xmas spirit into wrong times around the year. The idea that it will be filmed in different seasons, countries and climates will emphasize that the Christmas is fiction. Advent and the Xmas spirit will be a metaphor for life itself, the expectations we have that things will get better and that the next party will be the best ever? Or I looked so much forward to Xmas Eve as a kid so that when it arrived, I got sick. Advent on Desire. Advent on Addiction. Advent in Recovery. Can I talk about addiction in relation to Xmas spirit? My experience that the pregame is always better than the party itself? Who said the definition of crazy is doing the same thing over and over again expecting a different result? Is Xmas spirit a sexual energy? Writing about the pursuit of instant gratification, desperation and what defines addiction I try to find my way back to the Xmas spirit and the endless desire and energy I had as a kid.