performance
Hot Pocket, solo exhibition by Tori Wrånes
Museet for Samtidskunst, Nasjonalmuseet, Oslo
1 June 2017

curator 
Stina Högkvist

A 10 minute time-based painting installation/performance featuring ongoing research into the role of the artist-shaman in contemporary ecologies; in particular, bird-human relations. Strigiformes: Binocular, Binaural combines elements based on geographically-specific ecological surveys of vertebrate species from Australian ornithologists, the phone app Tinder and human translations of other vertebrate species calls. The performance-painting-installation features a 70 square metre hand-sewn silk rainbow backdrop, a specially commissioned soundscape by Tom Smith including sound material collected by Clare Milledge, human-bird performers and a psychedelic whipcracking bird-shaman. Data has been collected from Byron Bay (AU), Glenorchy (NZ) and Oslo (NO). 
performers
Erlend Tre (as Glenorchy)
Even Eileraas (as Oslo)
Clare Milledge (as Alba)
sound
Tom Smith
costume and makeup
Clare Milledge
dressing and makeup assistant
Lisa Asplund
special thanks
Tori Wrånes 
David Milledge (owl calls)
David Stewart (owl calls)
Sven Patajac (research assistance)
Morten Milledge-Grayburn (research assistance)
Annette McKinley (research assistance)
Marty Jay (unitards)
Jane Campion
Tessuti 

L – R from top

Clare Milledge, Strigiformes: Binocular, Binaural, performance still, 2017, performers Erlend Tre (left) and Even Eileraas (right), Museet for Samtidskunst, Nasjonalmuseet, Oslo. Photo: Hilde Malme.

Clare Milledge, Strigiformes: Binocular, Binaural, performance still, 2017, performer Clare Milledge, Museet for Samtidskunst, Nasjonalmuseet, Oslo. Photo: Børre Høstland.

Strigiformes: Binocular, Binaural, 2017, design concepts for Hot Pocket

Strigiformes: Binocular, Binaural, 2017, Museet for Samtidskunst, Nasjonalmuseet, Oslo, exhibition catalogue






This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body.
This project is supported by the NSW Government through Create NSW.
This project is supported by UNSW Art & Design.