HØSTSCENA REVIEWED IN THE ONLINE MAGAZINE NERO EDITIONS:

The Italian dramaturge and independent researcher Paola Granato spent time in Ålesund during this year’s festival edition and she states:
«From the first moment, Høstscena presented itself to our eyes as a real entanglement. In its shared curatorship with Lisa Gilardino, Poka-yio and Helle Siljeholm, as well as the carte blanche for site-specific projects, director Siri Forberg’s curatorial approach gave life to an organic festival where the different curatorial practices that met generated something other. The different projects that inhabited Ålesund during Høstscena 2023 East of the Sun, West of the Moon (this was the title) were a mix of small festivals that flowed into each other, constellations of the very same galaxy which, despite their diversity in language, did not travel separately. Attending the festival as it unfolded meant taking part in something that on the one hand built a possible model for cultural policy, while on the other had the flavor of a transformation». You can read the whole review here:
https://www.neroeditions.com/kisses-from-alesund/