Expressive Herd - Performance (2018)
Performance at Sommerøya, an electronic music festival in Ekebergparken in Oslo
Duration: 40 minutes on August 17 and 60 minutes on August 18.
Documentation filmed by visual artist Margarida Paiva
About the performance:
At music festivals people often act more freely – more relaxed than in other daily life situations. With the performance «Expressive Herd», Bergen-based performance artist Hans Christian van Nijkerk (NO / NL) mirrors this behavior with methods meant to make the audience more aware of their own way of behaving. To increase the absurdity, the actions in this artistic social experiment are removed from their usual context or «wrong» in some way.
Performance at Sommerøya, an electronic music festival in Ekebergparken in Oslo
Duration: 40 minutes on August 17 and 60 minutes on August 18.
Documentation filmed by visual artist Margarida Paiva
About the performance:
At music festivals people often act more freely – more relaxed than in other daily life situations. With the performance «Expressive Herd», Bergen-based performance artist Hans Christian van Nijkerk (NO / NL) mirrors this behavior with methods meant to make the audience more aware of their own way of behaving. To increase the absurdity, the actions in this artistic social experiment are removed from their usual context or «wrong» in some way.
All photos by Sommerøya festival photographer Morteza Masuleh.