Art performance

Manuel Pelmuș: Permanent Collection Tøyen

Munch and Øya present Manuel Pelmuș: Permanent Collection Tøyen, an iteration of PhD candidate Manuel Pelmuș' work Permanent Collection. Anton Skaaning Thomsen, bachelor student in contemporary dance, is one of the invited dancers.

From munchmuseet.no:

This year's festival artist will create a performance in collaboration with four dancers in a tribute to the sculpture Vindfruen in Tøyenparken and to the neighborhood's history.

Permanent Collection Tøyen is a spinning live sculpture set in motion by mixing dance history, queer gestures, and social movements.

A lexicon of movements assembled from - found gestures, recycled dance histories, protest movements - organized between set phrases and improvisation.

Ole Kristian Sjølie’s sculpture Vindfruen (The Wind Maiden, 1980) was originally intended to be installed as a floating artwork in the Oslo fjord. Like a weathervane, the sculpture would have moved freely in the wind, but instead it was permanently placed in Tøyen park. In Pelmuș’ new performance, four dances will find inspiration in the original plan for the placement of the work, and will position themselves as living, moving sculptures.

With Vindfruen as their starting point, the dancers will also pay tribute to other aspects of the neighbourhood, such as Tøyen’s working-class heritage, diverse culture, and queer histories.

The performance can be experienced during this year's Øya Festival. The times will be published at munchmuseet.no 7 August.

Concept

Manuel Pelmuș 

Dancers/choreographers

Frederic Gies, Amie Mbye, Anton Skaaning Thomsen (avbildet), Jens Trinidad

Curators MUNCH

Ingrid Moe og Trine Otte Bak Nielsen

Project Manager Øyafestivalen

Kyrre Heldal Karlsen

Photo

Julie Hrnčířová

About Manuel Pelmuş

Manuel Pelmuş (born in Bucharest, Romania, 1974), is based in Oslo. He is an artist with a background in choreography and dance and is interested in the idea of a live presence within the context of exhibitions, exploring the human body’s relationship to memory and the construction of history. In 2012 he was awarded the Berlin Art Prize for performance arts, and in 2013 he represented Romania at the 55th Venice Biennale in a collaboration with Alexandra Pirici. His work has been presented at a number of international museums including Tate Modern, Centre Pompidou, and the Van Abbemuseum.