Centarium
2018 – 2020
Performances, interventions and films.
Mo i Rana, Norway.
This umbrella project examines the Norwegian shopping center as a cultural, social, and political phenomena. Norway today has the most square meters of shopping center per inhabitant in Europe. Namely 926 square meters per 1000 inhabitant, equaling almost 1 square meter of shopping center per person.
Centarium is performed and filmed mainly during normal opening hours, with the centers’, at times, identical spaces as the stage and scenography. Performers, employees and visitors are given tasks and scripts to trigger new content and intentions for these spaces which, in turn, creates the raw material for the resulting film work.
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This umbrella project examines the Norwegian shopping center as a cultural, social, and political phenomena. Norway today has the most square meters of shopping center per inhabitant in Europe. Namely 926 square meters per 1000 inhabitant, equaling almost 1 square meter of shopping center per person.
Centarium is performed and filmed mainly during normal opening hours, with the centers’, at times, identical spaces as the stage and scenography. Performers, employees and visitors are given tasks and scripts to trigger new content and intentions for these spaces which, in turn, creates the raw material for the resulting film work.
Film still. Centarium. 4K Video. (2020) First edition of the project has been produced primarily in the centers COOP OBS and AMFI in Mo I Rana, a town where shopping centers has had a defining impact on the public spaces.
Stills from the film. Staged and filmed in chosen shopping centers during mostly normal opening hours, a chain of events is started by a mannequin coming to life.
Excerpts. Cinematography by Jørgen Bull.
Performance by Chollada Phinitduang and Rune S. Løding at COOP OBS Mo i Rana in May 2019 .
Screening in Koch shopping mall during Bodø Biennale 2020.