Bedroom eyes

2022
performance, 20 min

A used mattress lies on the floor as a man, wearing hotel slippers and a cream-coloured satin robe, enters and sits on it. He sensually whispers into the wireless microphone, expressing that he has been contemplating how a large part of his body feels like a hole—or several holes, to be exact. Small holes, spiritual holes, greedy holes, and a whole new world. And that uncanny feeling of feeling like an asshole. He slowly dances like a shadow along the contour of the room, to the reverberation of a muffled rhythm.

This work was commissioned for “Performance Days 5 - Fornemmelser for Bergman,” organized by Performance Art Stavanger and curated by Anne-Marte Eidseth Rygh. Five artists were assigned an Ingmar Bergman movie, to which they responded by reactualizing the material into a performance. This work is a response to Persona (1966).

Press
 
Årets debutant på Høstutstillingen kommer til TOU
Juste Druskine, Tou. 28.09.22

Trofasthet mot detaljen
Kjetil Røed, Performance Art Stavanger, 20.12.22

En samtale om Performance Days
Anne Marte Eidseth Rygh, Kjetil Røed, Contemporary Art Stavanger, 11.04.23

Fornemmelser for Bergman 2: Finn Adrian Jorkjen
Espen Birkedal, Finn Adrian Jorkjen, Lunken Kaffi Podcast, 23.08.22

Special thanks to ♥
Amund
Anne-Marthe Eidseth Rygh
Tom Holthe Enoksen 
Performance Art Stavanger
Håkon Brynjulvsrud
Martin Bergmo
Hild Jorkjen Ottestad & Arne Ottestad