Fluid Tensions / Oslo Opera House / Oslo / (NO) 2020
Fluid Tensions is a site-specific performance installation made for the opera roof in Oslo. Two textile membranes attached around stainless steel pipes form two irregular polygons related to the lines of the Opera roof. The textile membranes are stretched and held in place by stainless-steel wires connected to heavy squared structures in the same size as the marble slabs of the opera roof.
Two bodies interact with the membranes from in under, leaving ephemeral imprints while pressing their limbs, extremities and bodies toward the membrane. The bodies seemingly float as the wind sets the membranes in motion and the human forms become an integrated part of the textile membrane as it heaves and breathes, dissolving the boarders between inside and outside.
Performance duration: 1 hour
Performed by: Marie Rechsteiner and Tone Martine Kittelsen
Material: Transparent lycra, stainless steel pipes, connector clamps, stainless steel wires, construction wood, cement
Size: Polygon # 1: Textile membrane: 19 * 16,5 * 12 m. Polygon # 2: Textile membrane: 12 * 7,5 * 7,5 * 11 m. Installation area: 30 * 80 m.
Supported by: Arts Council Norway, Billedkunstnernes Vederlagsfond, Oslo municipality, The Norwegian National Opera and Ballet and Norwegian Textile Artist
Photo: Adrian Bugge
