Man må godt spille arty cello på Roskilde

RF 2023: Jules Fischer & Josefine Opsahl: »It doesn’t look like anything to me«

Andreo Michaelo Mielczarek. © Kåre Viemose

Fremtidsrejser, utopier, aktivistisk og meget arty anti-hverdag – dét er Roskilde Festival, især her i 2023, og der har Josefine Opsahl selvfølgelig fået plads. I performanceværket It doesn’t look like anything to me (tænk sci-fi-serien Westworld) flåede hun ikke i celloens strenge, men formede langsomt et neoklassisk score med folkemusik fra gamle dage (eller måske folkemusik fra fremtiden?), mens fire performere gled rundt i knæbeskyttere, brød ud i soul, brydekæmpede og fodstampede i rundkreds.

I midten af det hele, med publikum omkring sig, sad Opsahl, i spidse støvler, den skarpe lydlige iscenesætter – skruede op og ned for ambience, som man gør i værker, der også har en visuel side og et budskab, her kold maskulinitet versus ny sårbarhed. Ikke storladen, mere tilbageholdende, dejligt befriet for unødig svulstighed. Skarpt.

Opsahl passede godt til Roskildes kuraterede eksperimentarium, Platform-scenen, hvor kunstarter blandes og stilles i nyt lys for et nysgerrigt publikum. I en halv time fik hun Dyrskuepladsen til at lytte til cellomusik og se Jules Fischers cool koreografi. Den medrivende totaloplevelse stoppede brat. Det gør totaloplevelser. Efter sidste cellostrøg stod stilheden tilbage. Mange fik en på opleveren. Det var arty. Det må man godt på Roskilde.

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