Jenny Hval

I Want To Be A Machine is the name of the new work by singer, composer, and novelist Jenny Hval, developed in collaboration with Håvard Volden, Jenny Berger Myhre, and Linn Nystadnes. She was inspired by Heiner Müller’s Hamlet Machine, a key work of the 1970s avant-garde: as Müller once dismantled Shakespeare’s Hamlet and reconstructed it as a theatrical machine, Hval attempts to do the same with the essence of musical production. Her performance is a concatenation of situations, intensities, unconscious action and conscious non-action: broken shards of fallen greatness are reassembled to tell other, stranger, and more exhilarating stories.