In Object and despair, Ingun Bjørnsgaard examines human fallibility, in close collaboration with the dancers Catharina Vehre Gresslien, Edith Strand Askeland and Ludvig Daae.

Fumbling attempts at flawless behavior in recognizable habitual situations become the subject of guilt and vulnerability in Bjørnsgaard's new work. Against a vague sense of collective dismay, three performers struggle with the feeling of fault to be corrected at any time, and the self-criticism that can easily take over. With various intertextual references, among others to a Norwegian etiquette manual from the 1960s, the performance explores the fine line of proper ways of moving without exceeding the risk of shame and abandonment that can otherwise occur.

In the methodological development of the performance, thematic studies of impeccable etiquette and social conventions are fragmented and abstracted through Ingun Bjørnsgaard's signature movement structures. The trio format invites a further exploration of the company's uncoordinated harmonies as a form of choreographic idiom.

The dancers find themselves in fragments of distressed situations where they try to listen to eachother and do their utmost, based on limited possibilities for appropriate movements. While engaged in individual challenges, they also await solutions to their struggles outside of themselves.