Symphony of a Missing Room by Lundahl & Seitl 7-19 September
Symphony of a Missing Room by Lundahl & Seitl back at the National Museum in September
”During a magical walk the outside world is transformed into an inner landscape. This is more than art. This is the Future,” Nöjesguidens konstpris (Stockholm) 2009 awarded to Lundahl & Seitl’s Symphony of a Missing Room.
Now there’s another chance to experience Weld’s major production from 2009, Symphony of a Missing Room by Lundahl & Seitl, which premiered last year. After a visit to the Dance and Theater festival in Gothenburg in August, this participatory performance is back at the National Museum from September 7-19, following which it will set off on an international tour.
Artist duo Lundahl & Seitl has created an immersive and participatory artwork "Symphony of a Missing Room", presented as part of the Nationalmuseum's experimental exhibition "Museum in a new light". Taking the form of a guided tour, visitors instead experience an orchestration and manipulation of their perception of time and space. "Symphony of a Missing Room" is a journey through the Nationalmuseum, which is both collective and highly personal.
Visitors are guided by a voice in wireless headphones through simulated virtual space, walls, passageways and huge exhibition halls. Choreographed movements and a multisensory orchestration of touch and movement synchronized with an advanced 3-dimensional sound recording, create a sculptural dimension and architecture in our minds. Time and space are distorted and visitors find themselves in a new world. "Symphony of a Missing Room" steers our attention away from the visible ordinary world and turns our gaze towards consciousness itself. Here subject and object relations converge into a complex unstable relationship between the signifier and the signified, the observer and the observed.
"Symphony of a Missing Room" is a unique artwork, presented as part of the Nationalmuseum's experimental exhibition "Museum in a new light." A limited number of places are available for each performance and tickets can only be purchased via www.weld.se.
Each tour will begin promptly at the given time so you are kindly asked to gather at the Nationalmuseum's ticket office ten minutes before the start of the performance. No admittance after the tour has begun.
Ticket price: 170 SWE crowns. No discounts
Swedish-born, London-based artist duo Christer Lundahl (1978) & Martina Seitl (1979) have worked together since 2003, creating large-scale site and situation specific artworks that explore time, space and people's perception. Their repertoire includes commissions from Tate Modern, Tate Britain, The A Foundation, The Whitechapel Gallery and Battersea Arts Centre in London and Weld in Stockholm. With a solid foundation in research, their artistry builds on visitor participation and total immersion. Their cross-disciplinary projects and artworks include work with architects, cognitive neurologists, fashion designers, designers and musicians. "Symphony of a missing room" is the third and most advanced and ambitious work in a series of three projects that Lundahl & Seitl is producing in collaboration with Weld. For more information see: www.lundahl-seitl.com
Fashion designer Jula Reindell (DE) created the costumes and design. Her previous work includes collaboration with Hussein Chalayan.
Other participants: Rachel Alexander (UK), Lisette Drangert, Moa Hanssen, Helena Helmvee, Genevieve Maxwell (UK), Colin McLean (UK) and Josephine Tengberg.
Production: Weld
Performance length: 60 minutes. No intermission.