Seeing Double

Posted: 2014/06/22 ˑ Tag: ,Japan,Renberg,Residency,Shimizu,Solo show,Video

Seeing Double from Oyvind Renberg on Vimeo.

On the 25. of June Øyvind opens his residency exhibition at Art Center Ongoing in Kichijoji, Tokyo. The exhibition coincides with the shooting of a new video piece Seeing Double at Ongoing´s first floor gallery. Earlier video works and watercolours will be presented on the ground floor.

Over his past two months in residence, Øyvind has collaborated with dancers Aoki “Aokid” Naosuke and Taku Yoshida, developing a choreography for a new performance. The collaboration also includes the cast of Demizu “Demy” Kentu, Kyle Yamada and Satoshi Katagiri. Miho Shimizu has produced costumes and set pieces for the installation environment where the performance will be conducted and filmed.

Aoki “Aokid” Naosuke and Taku Yoshida

The project follows the video work Free Townswoman, tracing 24 hours in a medieval greengrocer´s stall, shot in Berlin earlier this year. Both projects stage pre-industrial settings, which allows for an exploration of close, sometimes crammed relationships between people. With color, costumes, characters and set pieces inspired by historic paintings and old tableau vivants, the projects use simple actions and human interplay as the basis for choreography. Seeing Double is set in an Izakaya bar ca year 1900, and follows the cycle of leisure of the main characters – a postman (Yoshida) and the Fisherman (Naosuke). Their choreography explores friendship as a form of mimicry. The two are synchronised, choreographed around basic actions like walking, sitting down, drinking – hanging out.