Hi sida
Kjersti Alm Eriksen & Pinquins
Showings
Showings
Friday 18/09
Saturday 19/09
What really happens there, on the «wrong side»?
In weaving, every surface has a right side and a reverse—a so-called “wrong” side. The right side is what we present to the world. It is finished, smooth, composed. The wrong side reveals the traces of labour itself: loose threads, crossings, knots, and structures that hold everything together. Hi sida, meaning “the other side” in a Norwegian dialect, begins there.
The experimental music trio Pinquins and object artist–scenographer Kjersti Alm Eriksen have built a wall. Made of wood, rope and simple mechanisms, it opens, closes, moves and sounds. The wall is both an instrument and part of a larger machinery. What the audience hears and sees is a consequence of what happens on the other side, and of the labour required to set those actions in motion.
Pinquins and Alm Eriksen came together through a shared love of objects. Pinquins collect the sounds of objects, Alm Eriksen collects their movements. In their previous collaboration, INTERVALL (2023), objects were given distance from the performer in search of their own agency. Hi sida moves the objects and performers closer. Here, the focus is on contact and repetition – on what happens when bodies and objects work together in a shared becoming.
Want to know more?
- In Hi sida, all four artists work as both makers and performers. They build models and test walls, improvise with materials, stop to listen, discuss and rebuild, until the wall is no longer just a structure, but a partner in the work.
- About their love of objects, Pinquins and Alm Eriksen say: "When we meet, the objects gain new lives, new meanings, and new forms of meaninglessness. They awaken empathy in their attempts to perform impossible or useless tasks."
- More Pinquins at Ultima in Autumn Caravan.
Pinquins & Kjersti Alm Eriksen. Photo: August Fabritius Sandengen
Photo: Isa Landaburu
Photo: Isa Landaburu
Supported by
- Arts Council Norway
Produced by
- Black Box teater
