Melting Bodies is to be understood as a trilogy consisting of the photographic series of ice portraits Melting Bodies: Surface Tension, Melting Bodies, a multi-screen performance-installation and the contemporary dance work Glacial Decay.
The series of works portray melting glacier ice and changing landscapes in the context of climate change.
Melting Bodies performance Installation: Two performers are set in a dark landscape, moving on and around patches of loose sheep wool, providing shelter and comfort in the continuous process of melting.
The video projections both function as visual reference and as a movement score for the performers, who are following and embodying the flow of the air bubbles and little water streams as the ice is melting. They themselves are melting, the breath of the performers becomes one with the breath of the decaying ice, a long exhale of melting bodies of ice with a simultaneous human exhale, initiating many of the performed movements. The two performers are however limited in their actions, somewhat reduced to a position of observation and reduced action.
Supported by: The Icelandic Academy of Arts, Reykjavík, Iceland, The University of Arts and Design Karlsruhe, Germany, Stiftung Edelhof Ricklingen and Studio Ilka Theurich Hannover.
Photo:Karolina Sobel
Photo:Karolina Sobel
Photo:Karolina Sobel
