Performances 25 May

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Louis Schou-Hansen – Tragedy

  • Time: 14.00-17.00
  • Location: Uppsala Art Museum, floor 1
  • Language: English

You may come and go as you wish in the performance installation.

About the artwork:

Tragedy is an all-consuming space, where two miserable fictional characters enact a slow, endlessly looping nightmare. This dreamscape takes the shape of an entrapment, a labyrinth without walls, a site where Western cultural tropes from the baroque until now take shape as disordered compulsions: lap dances, star-crossed lovers, cowboy fantasies, dying swans, court des ballets, still lives, and Hollywood sex. Tragedy is a non-emotional burial ground for an undying history—a form of time in decay. 
 
In 2019, artist and theorist Alina Popa wrote in one of her final essays, “The body is real, but what we think about it is fiction.” While alluding to the “real” as the material properties of the body, such as flesh, bones, blood, skin, etc. Popa also points to the body as a disciplined container where complex fictional realities are cultivated until they penetrate our skin and stick to our flesh as something true. Drawing on an expanded interpretation of Popa’s 2019 quote, Tragedy explores the body and its surroundings as a complex network of destructive Western fictions where all of us become violent agents of a dying world.

Credit:

PERFORMANCE, SOUND AND COSTUMES: Louis Schou-Hansen
PERFORMERS: Thjerza Balaj & Elise Nohr Nystad
TEXTILE WORK: Karoline Bakken Lund 
PHOTO: Chai Saedi
OUTSIDE EYE: Alexandra Tveit
TRAILER/DOCUMENTATION: Chris Helberg
FUNDED BY: Arts Council Norway and PAHN – Performing Arts Hub Norway
CO-PRODUCTION: Podum Oslo

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Corpus Cosmos – introductory guided tour

Join us on a guided tour of the exhibition Corpus Cosmos – an exhibition about the body, cosmos and our place in the world. During a 20-minute guided tour, you will get insight into the exhibition's central themes and artists, and an introduction to how the works are connected.

  • Times: 14.30 and 15.30
  • Place: Uppsala Art Museum, floor 3
  • Language: Swedish

Free entry. Drop-in subject to availability.

About the exhibition

Corpus Cosmos is a collection of art produced by artists from different parts of the world, who explore the body in different ways – as pure matter, as storytelling, and as a concept. The artworks range from sculptures and paintings to sound and installations, and revolve around questions of anatomy, science, colonial history, faith and cosmology.

Among the participating artists are Ingela Ihrman, Pakui Hardware, Pia Sandström, Camila Sposati and Xadalu Tupã Jekupé. Together, they uncover new ways to understand the relation between the body and the surrounding world.

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