Rainforest Home

From their earliest days as a band, the members of R.E.M. always had a Keen sense of how they wanted to be perceived visually, even when it sometimes seemed as if they didn’t want to be seen at all…

Adventurer and survivalist Ed Stafford is back, pushing his survival skills to the limit and pittng himself once again against Mother Nature. In this brand new season, Ed will tackle three new challenges in which he is left high and dry in some of the most inhospitable and extreme environments - equipped with nothing but an emergency phone, medical kit and his camera to record his adventures.From the arid and rocky Gobi Desert in Mongolia to the tropical jungles of Guatemala and the Namibian bushveld, each location presents a unique and deadly test as Ed strives to not just survive, but thrive in some of the world’s toughest environments.

Roraima, by Norwegian bassist and composer Sigurd Hole, was commissioned by Oslo World for the festival in 2020. The work reflects themes such as solidarity and ecological vulnerability and draws inspiration from the creation myth of the Yanomami people and the sound of the Amazon rainforest.