EXHIBITION PERFORMANCE PROJECT
Echo - Morphed Mythologies exhibition
2024 | Echo- Morphed Mythologies at Het Tijdelijk Museum of Modern Art (currently located at Huidenclub) is a performative exhibition presenting three artworks produced through three alter-egos of Maren Bang. Read moreMaren Bang works interdisciplinary with a combination of objects, text, film, and performance, oftentimes using the mechanisms of the field to say something about the field itself.
Experimenting with elements from theatre, she explores performance not only as a means for presentation but for production - embodying various narratives while crafting through different mediums and techniques. Her practice addresses topics like control, systems, narratives, and the idea of constructing and reconstructing identities.
VIDEO SCULPTURE PERFORMANCE
Morphed Flex
2024 | A part of Echo-Morphed Mythologies in the character of Nolan Meier.As in previous productions, Nolan Meier works with references to gender, identity and expressions of self to create phantasmic and arguably ‘useless’ objects. In ‘Morphed Flex’ he imagines a modern day Narcissus and draws a parallel between the performance of power in the context of bodybuilders and in the context of finance and politics. Working with videoclips of public appearances of his subject, Meier uses repetition of gestures to exaggerate the performance of masculinity to the point of parody. How does the theater of power differ from actual power, if at all? Read more