kunstvideo VAAGEKONER
VAAGEKONER
VIDEOINSTALLATION 5 projektioner
P.C. SKOVGAARDS MUSEET
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Produced for The P.C. Skovgaard Museeum, Viborg Dk. “Vaagekoner” watch over the dying. They are present to comfort those in need. The dictionary of the Danish language explains the word “vaage” as “a state of transition between sleeping and being awake”. The video installation is recorded with a group of five Red Cross “vaagekoner” in the same province as the Skovgaard Museum. The women carry us with their quiet song and stories in bedrooms, as they move their faces, hands, hair and necks in gentle rythms. The group of “vaagekoner” walk in a Limestone Cave. In a vast flat heather landscape at Kongenshus Memorial Park in autumn the women meet their men.
“Vaagekoner” is inspired by the Golden Age artist P.C. Skovgaards passion for painting nature and his experience of his wife Georgias early death in childbirth. Skovgaard lost his wife in July 1868, a month after he painted “Børn i Skovbrynet ved Nysø” which portrays his now dead wife alive with their three children in nature’s embrace.
CREDIT
Medvirkende
Vaagkoner fra Røde kors Fauverskov Vest og deres mænd
Idé, koncept, dramatiker og instruktør Marika Seidler
videofotograf, lyd og klip Marika Seidler
Lydoptagelse Marika Seidler
Produktionsdesign: Marika Seidler
Music danske salmer sunget af vaagekonerne
Tak til Røde kors Fauverskov Vest, Vaagkoner og deres mænd
Producent: Seidlers SENSORIUM
Permiere år 2012 P. C. Skovgaards Museet
FACT
Varighed: 21 min.
Antal projektioner: 5
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TURNÉ
2012 P. C. Skovgaards Museet
