{"id":10728,"date":"2016-09-01T14:20:56","date_gmt":"2016-09-01T14:20:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skaftfell.is\/exhibition\/performance\/"},"modified":"2025-08-20T12:32:48","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T12:32:48","slug":"performance","status":"publish","type":"exhibition","link":"https:\/\/skaftfell.is\/is\/exhibition\/performance\/","title":{"rendered":"Performance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a series of text recitals, Nora tells stories through historical facts, philological ponderings and poetic means. For The Assembly of the Hyperboreans, she will tell a story about the different functions of the mouth, its cultural history, a drowned girl, and the taste of rubber.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The rescue-Anne doll is said to be the most kissed face in the world. She is modelled after the death mask of a drowned teenager found floating in the river Seine. Though the pathologist ruled her death a suicide, an impish smile rested on her lips. After the death mask became popularised a a piece of dec\u00f3r, actresses took to modelling their look after it. For a while, the look of the dead girl was the erotic ideal.<\/p>\n<p>What an annoyance it must be, to be clumsily resuscitated by thousands of pawing strangers. The plastic sternum convexed and concaved to the rythm of the Bee Gees&#8217; <em>Staying Alive<\/em>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Nora Joung<\/strong> (b. 1989) lives and works and is based in space (and time!). She holds a MFA from the Academy in Oslo. Her work is often centred around the relationship between language and images: Where one may become surrogate for the other, semiotic shifts are suggested and the fight for primacy over the other is constant. She also works as a critic.<\/p>\n<p>The performance is a part of <a href=\"\/?p=9389&#038;lang=en&#038;lang=en\">the Assembly of the Hyperboreans<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/?p=9389&#038;lang=en&#038;lang=en&#038;lang=en\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-9405 alignleft lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/skaftfell.is\/wp-content\/smush-webp\/2025\/08\/myndlistarsjodur.jpg.webp\" alt=\"Myndlistarsjodur\" width=\"150\" height=\"30\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 150px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 150\/30;\" \/><\/a><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-9192 alignleft lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/skaftfell.is\/wp-content\/smush-webp\/2025\/08\/sl_austurland-vertical.jpg.webp\" alt=\"SL_austurland\" width=\"150\" height=\"106\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 150px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 150\/106;\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":10730,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wds_primary_exhibition_status":0,"wds_primary_location":0,"footnotes":""},"exhibition_status":[140],"location":[],"class_list":["post-10728","exhibition","type-exhibition","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","exhibition_status-past-exhibitions"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skaftfell.is\/is\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exhibition\/10728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skaftfell.is\/is\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exhibition"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skaftfell.is\/is\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/exhibition"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skaftfell.is\/is\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exhibition\/10728\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skaftfell.is\/is\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skaftfell.is\/is\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"exhibition_status","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skaftfell.is\/is\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exhibition_status?post=10728"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skaftfell.is\/is\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=10728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}