Who deserves punishment?

In the ancient myth, the hunter Actaeon sees the virgin goddess Artemis bathing naked in a stream. Artemis punishes the hunter by turning him into a deer, and Actaeon's own dogs tear him to pieces.

The story is told by Ovid in his Metamorphoses: Actaeon does not know the reason for his punishment, the hunter becomes the hunted. The story is perplexing. Did Actaeon deserve his punishment? Artemis ruled over wild nature, but today we might say that she controlled the wilder side of the human psyche.

…it's only a rehearsal by the Norwegian group Zero Visibility shows two people, a man and a woman, who are lovers. In a powerful and intense dance performance, the nature of their relationship is revealed to the viewer through physicality instead of being mediated by dramatic or representative elements. Does the performance tell the ancient story? How do we reward or punish those who see us at our most vulnerable?

The terms that best describe the group's work are action, visuals and intellect. The group aims to create an ambiguous pleasure for the audience. The group gets the material for its performances from films and journalistic sources. Zero Visibility favours a simple visual aesthetic and uses new experimental electronic music in its pieces.

Zero Visibility was founded in 1996 by the choreographer Ina Christel Johannessen and the visual artist Jens Sethzman. The group's piece Hunt Out was named the most innovative production of the year in Ballet International Yearbook, Critic's Survey in 2000. In 2002 Johannessen received the Stage Art Award of the National Dance and Theatre Network of Norway for her Confession Time.