Maria Kvalheim (NO) is a scenographer and performer who works with performance, music and sound installation characterized by fragments of historical events and contemporary time. Through scenography she works as a concept developer and as performer in her own work and that of others. Through opening up and asking questions about what a set designer does she currently works with acoustic scenography producing sound that bring out the inherent acoustic and atmospheric potential of space. She is interested in the relationship between movement and space, and how sensory work can affect the movement of an audience. Maria works with Dresden-based theater network, fachbetrieb rita grechen. During 2020, she has initiated an electronic writing circuit where ownership of material is shared, and texts are “recycled” to other group members. This project started as a workshop together with fachbetrieb rita grechen’s previous work Piece of Silence.
