Marking the opening of the exhibition The Coming World: Ecology as the New Politics, Norwegian artist Tori Wrånes will present her performance created specially for Garage’s Atrium space.
Artist and musician Tori Wrånes is the author of one of the three performances composed for the Garage Live program which accompanies the exhibition The Coming World. Touching upon some themes raised by the show while also responding to the architectural environment of the Museum, Wrånes demonstrates a visual orchestra featuring thirty performers, including a professional accordion player and a vocalist.
The two Garage entrances—confined glass vestibules with automatically opening doors—will operate as the work’s conceptual triggers, interpreted by the artist as the lungs and mouth of the institution allowing the Museum to breathe and speak.
By developing this allegory, Wrånes imagines that, depending on the future resulting from our activity (or inactivity), the building breathes either in or out, until its breathing turns into a loud scream. This gesture is set to invoke overwhelming feelings by staging an imaginary scene where, plunged into the state of crisis, the inanimate building interrupts its fatal silence and shakes off prolonged apathy. The artist uses this poetic form to hint at the need to take active steps, express opinions and social positions—if we wish to still be able to breathe in the coming world.
Idea: Tori Wrånes
Curators of the project: Snejana Krasteva, Ekaterina Lazareva
Assistants: Monika Lyko, Ida-Johanna Lundquist, Olga Robayo, Vilia K. Sylvreik, Kamilla Edstrem-Odemark, Annie Hogg and Reyes Santiago
Costume designer: Annti Bjorn
Assistant costume designer: Line Maher
Project managers: Irina Pobezhimova and Tone Kittelsen
Performers: Yana Alyakina, Ksenia Baldina, Asya Belaya, Fati Besolti, Keti Bogucharskaya, Elizaveta Vladimirova, Ekaterina Volkova, Tori Wrånes, Marina Ganakh, Evgenia Glazunova, Anna Deryabova, Alexandra Dolgova, Eldar Izetov, Ksenia Kiryukhina, Tone Kittelsen, Aliya Kusepgalieva, Maria Livadina, Monika Lyko, Lucienne Lyubimova, Mariam Nagaychuk-El Abdalla, Vasko Nasonov, Vadim Norshtein, Darya Pasichnik, Anastasia Rossokhina, Anastasia Ryseva, Darya Sazonova, Vladimir Sechkin, Nyu Simakina, Tatyana Stepanova, Ekaterina Steppe, Evgenia Fomina, Anna Tsedik, Valeria Cherevko, Aleksei Chernomordikov, Anastasia Shelepova, Ksenia Shlezinger, Alyona Shutova, Violetta Yarovaya
Sound consultant: Hokon Holmos
The performance is prepared with the support from Arts Council Norway, Performing Arts Hub Norway, and Music Norway.
