How to read water #5
14 October – 27 November 2022 at TEKS, Trondheim
Concept/choreography/dance: Anna Thu Schmidt
Video/edit: Hanne Dahl Geving
Sound: Thea Ellingsen Grant
Video installation, mixed media, 2022
Co-produced by: TEKS
Supported by: Fond for lyd og bilde, Trondheim Kommune, DansiT
The installation at gallery TEKS is presented as a video and mixed media installation in combination with live events.
The video material was recorded at Hansbakkfjæra and at Hitra. The stones were collected along Trondheimsfjorden and will be returned as part of a collective ritual.
How to read water is an interdisciplinary collaboration between dance artist Anna Thu Schmidt, musician Thea Ellingsen Grant and media artist Hanne Dahl Geving which explores the relationship between the human body and the sea.
While our senses are stimulated when being near or in the ocean, the sense of time is often lost. How to read water seeks different ways of creating timeless and meditative spaces inspired by the phenomenon called ‘Blue Space’. A space that can give the feeling of time standing still and that serves as an invitation for ‘Entschleunigung’.
Art and nature both offer an alternative from everyday life by giving us space for reflection. In our hasty contemporary life subjected to the climate change crisis, such spaces can be a natural therapy connecting us with our deepest feelings for nature. To encourage people to protect nature these spaces enable us to question our egocentric view regarding our place on the planet.
In How to read water the human body becomes one with nature by blending into the landscape and responding to its shapes. The artists create a synthesis of images and sounds that at times is hypnotizing and seductive like the ocean itself.
Photos: Hanne Dahl Geving
Exhibition Opening
Opening performance with live music by Thea Ellingsen Grant and dance by Anna Thu Schmidt Friday 14 October 2022 at 7 pm.
Photos by Sigrid Erdal and Espen Gangvik
Trondheim Open Event
On Sunday 23 October 2022, TEKS opened its doors from 12am -8pm as part of Trondheim Open.
One could meet the artists throughout the day to experience the work and get insight into the project and the creative process. Audience were invited to join us for a meditative movement practice, 1:1 breathing exercises, an ocean walk, a stone ritual, or for an informal chat over a coffee.
A live performance by dance artist Anna Thu Schmidt and musician Thea Ellingsen Grant inside the gallery took place at 7 pm.
Photos by Mikkel Marhaug/Trondheim Open, Espen Gangvik, Håkon Vassvik, Anna Thu Schmidt
Closing weekend
The closing weekend took place Saturday 26 November and Sunday 27 November 2022 at TEKS.studio kl 12-16.
The audience could meet the artists throughout the day to get insight into the project and the creative process behind the project. Here they could discover the voice of water in the Sound Lab, create stone sculptures at our beach or explore meditative movements in relation to the installation.
A closing performance with live music by Thea Ellingsen Grant and dance by Anna Thu Schmidt took place 27 November 2022 at 4 pm.
Photos by Espen Gangvik
