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LAND OF THE FREE
by MAR/MÆR 
 - silent conversations with the dead

Site-specific performance

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Camouflage strategy starts from yearning to belong and to fit in into ‘something’, and continues in to material action when the desire to assimilate to a space is great.

The attraction to environment, like to a brick or stone wall, makes us want to be alike, and let our bodies dissolve, mixing into the space. This is a phenomena that some animals master. The anomaly relation, the confusion between bodies and space is the very slippage, where the imagination aroused by camouflage is the most intense. 

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Camouflaged creature is a silent trickster in a space, that creates ambiguity in visual perception. One cannot tell the reason for the hiding: is it a defense or is it a lure? The mission of the creature is to conceal and disappear, and by doing that, evoke histories of a location through its materiality and specificity. Camouflaged bodies are invoking forgotten songs and stories that materials in surroundings resonate

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Created and performed by: MAR/MÆR (Mari Pitkänen, Kaja M. Egeberg) and Tafar Chia Lewis I  

Video documentation: Syntyche Bishop I Photo documentation: Aaron Mohammed

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A 'mas intervention' into the Trinidad Carnival with the Norwegian Theatre Academy and Lordstreet Theatre Company, Port of Spain, 24/02/2017.

 

MAR/MÆR is a performing duo by Mari Pitkänen and Kaja Mærk Egeberg who creates performances from inspiration of researching bodies and their relation to non-human.

 

Mar/Mær has worked with camouflage strategies since 2017 several projects. 

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