Residens uke 23 / 2026

I HATE NATURE av Corentin JPM Productions er en invitasjon til skeive refleksjoner rundt identitet, tilhørighet og vårt forhold til naturen. En flokeløs labyrint av tau blir til et stadig skiftende landskap der kropper, historier og omgivelser kontinuerlig vikles inn i hverandre og omdefinerer hverandre.

Om produksjonen forteller Corentin:

«Homosexuality and nature have long shared a complicated history of contradiction and resemblance. The legitimization of queer lives throughout the twentieth century often relied on the sciences being medical, psychological, and/or sociological. In the process, queer bodies and desires were dissected, scrutinized, and positioned outside the realm of the natural. Thus emerged the myth of the urban queer: the little gay boy and his chosen family, somehow unfit for the wilderness. 

I HATE NATURE examines nature as a contested idea rather than a fixed reality. Depending on who you ask, nature can be order, morality, wilderness, escape, liberation, or something to conquer. Capitalism has transformed it into a commodity, selling us forests in sprays, candles, and curated experiences while distancing us from the real thing. The divide between human and nature emerged through our attempts to domesticate, control, and reproduce the world around us. For queer communities, nature has long been both refuge and battleground: a space of freedom, desire, and connection, but also a tool of exclusion through notions of the unnatural. 

If nature is a construct shaped by culture, power, and desire, who can claim to belong in nature? Why does beauty function as such a powerful strategy for survival? Why is the human eye so obsessed with finding order in chaos? 

In this new performance, we invite you to question and experience different forms of belonging within so-called Nature. 

Leave behind your pine-scented candles, your crystals, and your fantasies of untouched landscapes. 

Join us for the real deal. 

Let’s go outside.»

Om kunstneren

Corentin JPM Leven er en fransk multidisiplinær scenekunstner som jobber og bor i Oslo. Han er utdanna scenograf ved Akademi for scenekunst i Fredrikstad og jobber også som kostymedesigner og lysdesigner. 

Corentin JPM har jobbet som utøver siden 2015 med blant annet CocoRosie og Ulf Nilseng, samt sine egne soloforestillinger “+-” (2020), «Birds of Ill Omen» (2022) og «DIWRIZIENNET – Lost Genealogies» (2025). Corentin JPMs kunstneriske uttrykk tar for seg ulike problemstillinger, historier, rom og estetiske uttrykk knyttet til queer, og arbeidet hans er sterkt forankret i queer-miljøets arv og historie.