The Radical Flu has been commissioned by osloBIENNALEN with the kind support of KUF

KHiO. The Radical Flu has been produced in collaboration with Notam and RadioRakel

We are in Vår Frelsers gravlund, Oslo, a cemetery in the capital city of Norway, mid-

November 1918. Everyone's who's anyone is here. Either vertically or horizontally.

Vertically, we are about to encounter Ingeborg Køber, an innocent young lady, and Johan

Scharffenberg, a doctor. Horizontally, but under the verticality of Gustav Vigeland's statue,

we encounter Aasta Hansteen, a legend.

Characters: Actress, director, primadonna, woman scorned - but not dejected,

JOHANNE DYBWAD, 51 years old. INGEBORG KØBER, psychic medium, newlywed, hounded into submission, 23 years old; JOHAN SCHARFFENBERG, racist, medical doctor, psychiatrist, nationalist, lover of all practices ancient Greek - except drinking, bad poet, 49 years old. AASTA HANSTEEN, painter, language pioneer, self-taught theologist and a flaying critic of the Norwegian church, nationalist/ anti-imperialist, suffragette, Sapphian, misandrist, bad poet, deceased.