Symphony of a Missing Room by Lundahl & Seitl 3-15 of Nov.
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 art performance, 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. No advance bookings. However, due to the limited number of tickets available for each tour we recommend that purchase your tickets in advance.
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 prices:
Regular: SEK 100 Student: SEK 60
Other related events
Audience discussion, Wednesday, November 4, 19:00 with art theorist Gemma Sharpe (UK), and Lundahl & Seitl at Weld, Norrtullsgatan 7.
Sunday, November 15 the pianist Cassie Yukawa will play Fûr Alina by Arvo Pärt in a loop all day long. Venue: exhibition Museum in a new light 1st floor.
Background information
Swedish-born, London-based artist duo Christer Lundahl (1978) & Martina Seitl (1979) have worked together since 2003, creating large-scale site and situation specific performances 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 performances 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, Schalom Haddad, Moa Hanssen, Genevieve Maxwell (UK), Colin McLean (UK) and Cassie Yukawa (UK).
Production: Weld in collaboration with Nationalmuseum.
Performance length: 55 minutes. No intermission.
Selected press clips about Lundahl & Seitl's previous work:
"Lundahl and Seitl's Rotating in a Room of Images, a 15-minute piece for an audience of one using audio instructions, is like being haunted". Lyn Gardner, The Guardian
"Very clear evidence that the arts continues to evolve into new realms of emotion and intellect." Pia Huss, DN
"With "Work/Workshop" the duo transformed Weld into an enormous dark room, a universe of possibilities, of fear, desire and exploration, a redeeming work which is still winding its way somewhere in the bodily memory."
Ulrika Stahre, Aftonbladet
Information about Nationalmuseum: www.nationalmuseum.se