The Icelandic Love Corporation—Eirún Sigurðardóttir, Jóní Jónsdóttir, and Sigrún Hrólfsdóttir—first performed Ceremony Harmony on July 4, 2002, as part of the group exhibition Converter Project II at The Living Art Museum, Reykjavík, Iceland.

In this first version of the performance, Hekla and Ása Margrét Eiríksdætur performed on accordions, while Haraldur Kornelíusson and friends rode the motorcycles. We asked our friend Viðar Örn, to write a prose for the performance and his recorded voice was broadcast from a nearby car.

Since its debut, Ceremony Harmony has been performed by The Love Corporation in three locations, with certain adaptations and adjustments. Despite these variations, the work retains its central structure: It shows an encounter between two distinct forces, that pause, display themselves and confront one another, before ultimately passing through each other without harm. One could say that two different groups, or two different forces—symbolic of the weak and the strong—meet here, and a certain provocation or underlying tension can be sensed. Yet the groups ultimately manage to pass through one another, coming together within a confined space without anyone being harmed, while each retains its distinct characteristics. In this way, the work may be interpreted as a kind of utopian vision of the blending of cultures or any other two different entities, and the essence of the performance can be understood as harmony, as reflected in its title, Ceremony Harmony.

Ceremony Harmony has been performed at:

Converter Project II, The Living Art Museum Reykjavík, Iceland, 2002
Feast/Hospitality, Rum 46, Aarhus, Denmark, 2003
Cycle - Music and Art Festival, Gerðarsafn, Kópavogur, Iceland, 2015
Cycle - Music and Art Festival, Import Projects, Berlin, Germany, 2015

The work also exists as photographs and single channel video documentations.