havet innafor - the sea within

Kunstnerforbundet, 2022
For their exhibition at Kunstnerforbundet, Tone Myskja and the sound designer Jon Balke have created a work at the intersection between visual art, stage design, and musical composition. In the exhibition The Ocean Within, projected images drift rhythmically across surfaces producing a spatial atmosphere that contrasts with the room’s architectural meaning. From an inclined surface, lines emerge to form new compositions that free themselves from their field of origin and travel out into distant reaches of the darkened hall.
Thematically, Myskja’s work contemplates the complexities of language, perception, and identity, and how these realms are influenced by the viewer’s current time and space. The work explores the inherent motion of particle systems as a metaphor for how we shift between a sense of direction and disorientation, of being anchored or adrift.

The sense of being in motion is central to Myskja’s work. The gaze, the senses, mind, body, and human interaction form the basis for kinetic compositions that address displacement and transformation as fundamental dynamics of our mode of existence, whether the movement is an aspect of memory, emotion, human crowds, or technology.

The choreographer Ingri Fiksdal was invited to create a new work for four dancers within the installation. Four performances of the work were given on 23 April 2022. The contributing dancers were Ornilia Percia Ubisse, Jonathan Ibsen, Mariama Fatou Kalley Slåttøy, and Even Eileraas.

havet innafor / the sea within

2022

Video, edit, director Tone Myskja
Sound-design Jon Balke
Vocals Jon Balke, Små Grå; Mai Elise Solberg, Benedikte Kruse, Nina Mortvedt

Performance - Inside The Sea - 23rd of April 2022
Choreography Ingri Fiksdal
Dancers Ornilia Percia Ubisse, Jonathan Ibsen, Mariama Fatou Kalley Slåttøy, and Even Eileraas
Costumes, scenography Tone Myskja

Exhibition/performance photo Thomas Tveter