Picture a goldfish, and then consider the value of its life. This life is not on any animal-rights priority list, and perhaps therefore is considered to be of very little value. Goldfish are however,
fashionable creatures and decorative pets that demand minimum attention, and in case of death, they are easily replaceable. With this consideration, they do have some value. In the context of accessories and human consumer society, they have the value of decoration. In the context of life, next to hamsters, they are many children’s first encounter, knowledge and experience of life and death.

The unimportant is described by ignorance. I am using the goldfish as a metaphor to look at the theme “human ignorance”. Ignorance is the condition of being uninformed or uneducated, lacking knowledge or information.

By handling goldfish as we do, we enforce, in a small way, a consumer society where lives and knowledge of others becomes unimportant. For this project I ask; can a small and simple creature
like the goldfish increase tolerance among human beings and ignorance?

The development of this performance have been supported by New Nordic Circus Network, with the JTA programme, and residence, help and guidance from Theatreworks in Singapore. The
performance concept, scrip and realzier is done by Rudi Skotheim Jensen, with help of artistic supervisor Kate Pendry.

Rudi Skotheim Jensen started performing at the age of 12. He travelled around Norway, and received his high-school diploma before moving to Belgium. He was the first student to study directing and choreography for circus, arranged as a pilot project by Ecole Superior des Arts du Cirque (ESAC). In between these studies, he finished a term of dramaturgy at Høyskolen I Oslo (NO). He was then accepted directly into the second year at the Norwegian Theatre Academy in Fredrikstad (NO), where he got his bachelor degree. This varied education has constantly given him the possibility to direct, choreograph and perform, and has taken him around in theatres and residences such as Israel, Norway, Sweden, Singapore, Germany, Africa, Hungary, Greenland to mention some.