Norway: Morten Traavik - The Promised Land 35 images Created 28 Feb 2012
Artist Morten Traavik calls on both locals and visitors to Barents Spektakel to take part in a pioneering record attempt and a test of our ability to act together as one: with the help of North Korean mass games instructors we will try to create Norway's biggest living picture, hopefully with several hundred participants.
Following the signals of the North Korean instructors, every participant turns over pages of a colorful flip-book, becoming one of the hundreds of living pixels forming huge, shifting mosaic pictures of well-known motives from the High North. ME/WE also puts our communal spirit to the test: Are we western individualists able to subordinate ourselves to the collective discipline necessary to act together as one, if only just for some hours?
The ME/WE performance is accompanied live by the virtuosos of Kum Song (Gold Star) Music School Ensemble from the North Korean capital Pyongyang.
Following the signals of the North Korean instructors, every participant turns over pages of a colorful flip-book, becoming one of the hundreds of living pixels forming huge, shifting mosaic pictures of well-known motives from the High North. ME/WE also puts our communal spirit to the test: Are we western individualists able to subordinate ourselves to the collective discipline necessary to act together as one, if only just for some hours?
The ME/WE performance is accompanied live by the virtuosos of Kum Song (Gold Star) Music School Ensemble from the North Korean capital Pyongyang.
