Welcome to Paradise: A Requiem looks at how the terror attacks of September 11, 2001
have influenced events in the post 9/11 world. Questioning the infringements on civil
liberties and human rights that have been enacted in the name of democracy and freedom,
it asks whether words, laws and actions have become so disassociated from one another
that they have lost their relative meaning.
Set in the spectacular Kanonhallen, a former munitions storage in the north of Oslo,
this interactive performance invites non-traditional audience involvement and
presents a host of musicians, dancers, and theater artists in a dramatic architectural
environment. A truly hybrid art event, Welcome to Paradise: A Requiem mixes original
music, movement, and text with shortwave radios, military shells, enormous glass
sculptures and innovative electronics, probing issues of violence, abuse, and torture
from a multi-faceted chorus of perspectives. Previously classified documents, testimonies
from terrorists, and lounge music mingle. Using the double speak of political
Orwellian absurdities Welcome to Paradise: A Requiem dissects the propaganda of both
individual and state-sponsored terrorism.