/ To touch life or care for life? Is there a difference?

(Photo: In the light, herStay live, dancer and editor: Monica Emilie Herstad)

: Ideologically I am, seen totally, a passifist. Even so, I like being thrown at walls in my performances and be very physical in them, rather masochistic, perhaps. We may often have to point out distress to be able to show what peace is. We need to put things in a relief, dealing with visual art, as I do.

/ You have shows in many cities across the world, in Los Angeles and New York, Tokyo and London, you produce multimedia shows and engage people who may each be strong artists; are you never afraid?

: In a black and white worldview my philosophy and my faith is that light is
winning. So I am rarely scared. If I have a problem I determine to solve it. It is my motto. I feel that that's what the problems are for, to be solved. Don't you?

Oslo Kunsthall event 28.-29.June 2002, pictures:
Lights - candle lights and blue-screen, direction, movement, choreography part 1 and 2, and her video The fetish is the observer: Monica Emilie Herstad, herStay 2002

Part 1, herStay presents The fetish is the observer
Monica Emilie Herstad dance
herStay video director: Monica Emilie Herstad
video editor and camera assistant: Anette Haraldsen
video stills: Monica Emilie Herstad
Live music and performer in duet: Jon Rekdal

Part 2: herStay versus Mobile home in improvisational transitions with
dancer Monica Emilie Herstad
Tania Orning, cello
composer Svein Erga
Scenography by Zoe Christiansen, Mobile home

Event: herStay, Monica Emilie Herstad guest performances in collaboration with Oslo Kunsthall, curator Camilla Eeg, and Mobile home 2002

Production assistance: Danielsen & Kroepelien Arts Management

Lights assistance, Boya Bøckman

Curator: Camilla Eeg, Oslo Kunsthall 2002