Residency week 23 / 2026

I HATE NATURE by Corentin JPM Productions is an invitation to queer reflections on identity, belonging, and our relationship with nature. A tangle-free labyrinth of ropes transforms into an ever-shifting landscape where bodies, stories, and surroundings are continuously intertwined, redefining one another in the process.

About the production, Corentin says:

«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.»

About the artist

Corentin JPM Leven is a French multidisciplinary performing artist based in Oslo. He holds a degree in scenography from the Norwegian Theatre Academy in Fredrikstad and also works as a costume designer and light designer.

Since 2015, Corentin JPM has worked as a performer with artists including CocoRosie and Ulf Nilseng, alongside creating his own solo performances: +- (2020), Birds of Ill Omen (2022), and DIWRIZIENNET – Lost Genealogies (2025).

Corentin JPM’s artistic practice engages with a range of issues, histories, spaces, and aesthetic expressions connected to queer experiences. His work is deeply rooted in the heritage and history of queer communities.