Norangsdalen - Connecting Worlds

27. Sep   ̶  29. Sep, 2024

Cuneo │ Italy

Connecting Worlds

The 2024 edition, title Back to the Mountains, curated by Andrea Lerda, takes place in Cuneo from September 27th to September 29th. The focus is on the concept of "mountain futurism", aimed at generating speculative imaginaries for experiencing mountains and critically exploring the complexities of these places through the gaze of contemporary creativity, for a new movement to and from mountain and "metromontagna" territories. More info here: https://www.art-ur.it/living-room-e-connecting-worlds-back-to-the-mountains/ 

Helle Siljeholm is one of the invited artist and will present  "Norangsdalen" a 16 min. video. 4K. colour and sound. Excerpt of the video here: https://vimeo.com/760963549/18b32eea32

The video work The Mountain Body, Norangsdalen was made as a commission for Viti Museum and have been acquired for their museum collection. The video is based on the choreographic installation The Mountain Body – Norangsdalen, performed in October 2021 an co- produced by Høstscena.

“The time of the mountains – the deep time – seemed to us a question and a curiosity. How to slow down and at the same time experience every change in the surface of the mountain? We were four human bodies in white, who leaned into the mountainside of Norangsdalen. We may have become like tender, tender insects, with busy tasks that can not be seen at first glance, but required time in the eye watching. A slow dance in an elusive second of mountain time. ”

Quote Marianne Kjærsund (co-creative performer in The Mountain Body)

The video focuses on various natural compositions in the mountain, in combination with the movements in the surrounding landscape (clouds, plants, practitioners, moss, animals, wind, rain, etc.). A montage of elements where different meditations and notions of body, culture and nature arise, in which the human body and the mountain body seemingly becomes one.

With and by

Concept, direction and production: Helle Siljeholm
Edit and post prod: Espen Haslene/ TUNDRA*
Sound: BJ Nilsen
Climbers /performers: Pernille Holden, Marianne Kjærsund, Henrik Burvang and Mads Gausdal
Photographers: Fred Arne Wergeland, Espen Haslene, Tormod Granheim and Istvan Virag

Image credits : Helle Siljeholm, "Nodes on stones and other social landscapes" , 2017 © Marius Siemensen