christina tivemark

ODE TO THE INVISIBLE

This video-documentation was made in 2004, from the performance “Ode to the invisible”.
The video shows a small tree at the edge of a forest. Its leaves removed one after another. When the tree is completely leafless,it is painted white. The sound from leaves plucked off, is mixed with a background-sound from a slight breeze and whimpering dogs. The performance is quiet and melancholic and takes in its whole four hours.
It's a performance about making people in our closest surrounding visible. People who obviously are suffering under physical or mental pain and grief. It’s a critic against the egocentric idea of self- fulfilment and the individualistic society flourishing in our times, which seems to make us incapable to take notice of these people,letting them wither away and forgetting them.

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	ODE TO THE INVISIBLE This video-documentation was made in 2004, from the performance “Ode to the invisible”. The video shows a small tree at the edge of a forest. Its leaves removed one after another. When the tree is completely leafless,it is painted white. The sound from leaves plucked off, is mixed with a background-sound from a slight breeze and whimpering dogs. The performance is quiet and melancholic and takes in its whole four hours. It's a performance about making people in our closest surrounding visible. People who obviously are suffering under physical or mental pain and grief. It’s a critic against the egocentric idea of self- fulfilment and the individualistic society flourishing in our times, which seems to make us incapable to take notice of these people,letting them wither away and forgetting them.



	Videostills from Ode to the invisible 11min.57sec.