Marie Kølbæk Iversen: Donnimaar

Performance
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Photo: Nabeeh Samaan / Henie Onstad Kunstsenter

As a contextual framework around the video installation Rovhistorier in the exhibition The Atlantic Ocean - and as part of the artist's music project Donnimaar - Marie Kølbæk Iversen activates partly forgotten and repressed folk songs about sea people from her East Atlantic home region in West Jutland, including the song O Tilli.

Date Place
Studio

O Tilli means "on the floor" in West Jutland, and the song is about a mermaid who has been captured by the Danish queen and who now splashes on the floor like a fish.

Kølbæk Iversen's Donnimaar project is based on the 19th-century folklore collector Evald Tang Kristensen's song collection. Among them are songs collected from Kølbæk Iversen's great-great-great-grandmother Johanne Tygesdatter, who was one of Tang Kristensen's key informants.

Marie Kølbæk Iversen: Donnimaar

In the performance at Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Kølbæk Iversen will use the sculptures that are part of the video installation Rovhistorier as percussion instruments as a new element.

Free entry with museum ticket.

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    Photo: Nabeeh Samaan / Henie Onstad Kunstsenter

The educational programme is supported by The Norwegian UNESCO Commission and Fondet for dansk-norsk Samarbeid.

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