Please Watch Your Step
2018
Performance, 30 minutes
A complexity of species can be found in Klambratún, public park. Some of the plants have been there for half a century, spreading their branches. Others are newer and still rooting. There are those who desire to stay in the park but are immediately uprooted. These grasses don’t give up and grow again next spring.
"Please Watch Your Step" was a guided tour through Klambratún public park. Agnes took on the role of a tour guide and introduced characters of plant species that she had gotten to know during her visits there. The audience got to know each plant in their own respect and maybe themselves along the way. The tour was build up of performative exercises that would increase the feeling of empathy, within the audience and the tour guide, towards other beings in the park.
In 2019 the piece was adapted and performed in: Highfields Park - Nottingham in the UK, Otterdalsparken - Kristiansand in Norway and downtown Reykjavík, Iceland.
Photos by Hanne Korsnes
Photos by Chiara Giardi