The wanderer - Land Art as a door opener to inner landscapes
The workshop started with an in-door presentation of the artistic process of making the music and video installation “I himmelsynet ("In Sight of Heaven"), including a 12 minutes video which is a part of the installation. After lunch, the participants explored land art, one of the artistic forms used in the project. In the artistic process, Mjanger became a wanderer and worked in close contact with landscapes and nature materials in her local surroundings. With the background in drama/theatre, she was eager to challenge herself to cross borders between the arts. Building small-scale land art created moments of flow and became metaphors for Mjangers inner journeys, suitable for the arts installation. In the workshop we explored, through hands-on, silence and storytelling techniques, how land art might be a door opener for our inner and outer landscapes. In the end, we presented the work-in-progress for each other and discuss (1) how we artistically might transform private stories to make them ready for the public sphere, (2) how to feed the courage to explore beyond our own backyard and (3) silence.
About the arts installation:
“In Sight of Heaven” is an art project that explores the suffering humans’ relation to itself, to a God and to the challenges of being chronically ill. The inspiration to the interdisciplinary artistic research project is grounded in Mjangers own experience with a chronicle disease and her wish for honest conversations about the journey of life. The installation was first exhibited at The Leprosy Museum, Bergen, Norway in 2013 and latest exhibited in Søreide church during the festival Påskefest (Easter Festival), Bergen, Norway in 2016. www.prosjektprisme.com
About the arts installation:
“In Sight of Heaven” is an art project that explores the suffering humans’ relation to itself, to a God and to the challenges of being chronically ill. The inspiration to the interdisciplinary artistic research project is grounded in Mjangers own experience with a chronicle disease and her wish for honest conversations about the journey of life. The installation was first exhibited at The Leprosy Museum, Bergen, Norway in 2013 and latest exhibited in Søreide church during the festival Påskefest (Easter Festival), Bergen, Norway in 2016. www.prosjektprisme.com
Publisert i Arts in Context, 2016
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