Lifeboats become Lifesounds

 

three ships.....three sculptures....three women....three stages

Women in three stages.

 

It radiates so powerfully from the boats to Marit Benthe Norheim that they must get answers from living women on land.

The boat sculptures must be transformed into social sound sculptures: Lifesounds

The boats - “Longing”, “Life”, and “Memories” must meet children, pregnant women and women over 70 when they dock.

We must hear the sound of this meeting. We must hear children’s voices of the most peculiar varieties, elderly people humming an old song from their shared musical heritage and very importantly, we must hear the sound of unborn life: many pregnant women gathered with contact microphones on their bellies so that we can all hear it together. 

That is how we become bound together in a communal sound sculpture.

This is universal, indivisibly connected to the life cycle and life experiences. Powerful and inviolable.

 

More specifically, I can see how this sound composition, which is directly inspired and connected to Life-boats, could form a kind of core in the diverse cultural exchange that will take place when the boats arrive at various locations. This core is so powerful that it can enter into an artistic unity with other expressions of both visual as well as performance art. 

 

This is how Marit Benthe Norheim starts a wave of new visions in the world with her highly visionary, but very concrete sculptures.

 

 

Ruth Wilhelmine Meyer, Singer/vocal performer.