Ceremony Harmony
With The Icelandic Love Corporation (1996-2016)
Cycle - Art and Music Festival - Gerðarsafn, 2015
Ceremony Harmony
With The Icelandic Love Corporation (1996-2016)
Cycle - Art and Music Festival - Gerðarsafn, 2015
The Icelandic Love Corporation—Eirún Sigurðardóttir, Jóní Jónsdóttir, and Sigrún Hrólfsdóttir— performed Ceremony Harmony for the third time, as part of Cycle - Art and Music Festival, on the bridge across Reykjanesbraut and in front of Gerðarsafn, Kópavogur Art Museum, Iceland in 2015.
The Love Corporation arrived on the bridge in a grey run down van. They rolled out a large greyscale flag on the bridge over the hightway Reykjanesbraut. Three ladies playing accordions appeared from the back of the van and started to walk across the bridge. A motorcycle club drove up from the highway. The groups confronted each other but finally passed through each other, over they greyscale flag, in harmony. After the groups had passed the Love Corporation sprayed a red circle onto the flag. They also sprayed each other across the heart.
Including its debut, Ceremony Harmony has been performed by The Love Corporation in four 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.