{"id":10621,"date":"2016-09-01T14:20:56","date_gmt":"2016-09-01T14:20:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skaftfell.avistaserver.com\/?p=10621&lang=en"},"modified":"2020-05-12T10:10:28","modified_gmt":"2020-05-12T10:10:28","slug":"performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.skaftfell.is\/en\/performance\/","title":{"rendered":"Performance"},"content":{"rendered":"

In a series of text recitals, Nora tells stories through historical facts, philological ponderings and poetic means. For The Assembly of the Hyperboreans, she will tell a story about the different functions of the mouth, its cultural history, a drowned girl, and the taste of rubber.<\/p>\n

The rescue-Anne doll is said to be the most kissed face in the world. She is modelled after the death mask of a drowned teenager found floating in the river Seine. Though the pathologist ruled her death a suicide, an impish smile rested on her lips. After the death mask became popularised a a piece of dec\u00f3r, actresses took to modelling their look after it. For a while, the look of the dead girl was the erotic ideal.<\/p>\n

What an annoyance it must be, to be clumsily resuscitated by thousands of pawing strangers. The plastic sternum convexed and concaved to the rythm of the Bee Gees’ Staying Alive<\/em>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Nora Joung<\/strong> (b. 1989) lives and works and is based in space (and time!). She holds a MFA from the Academy in Oslo. Her work is often centred around the relationship between language and images: Where one may become surrogate for the other, semiotic shifts are suggested and the fight for primacy over the other is constant. She also works as a critic.<\/p>\n

The performance is a part of the Assembly of the Hyperboreans<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Myndlistarsjodur\"<\/a>\"SL_austurland\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In a series of text recitals, Nora tells stories through historical facts, philological ponderings and poetic means. For The Assembly of the Hyperboreans, she will tell a story about the different functions of the mouth, its cultural history, a drowned girl, and the taste of rubber. The rescue-Anne doll is said to be the most kissed face in the world. She is modelled after the death mask of a drowned teenager found floating in the river Seine. Though the pathologist ruled her death a suicide, an impish smile rested on her lips. After the death mask became popularised a a [\u2026] <\/p>\n

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