Those of you from the Oslo region are no more than ten miles from Jenny Hval‘s Innocence is Kinky sound and light installation, housed in Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Høvikodden.
As part of the Øya music festival in 2011, Jenny performed a silent movie concert in Oslo. . Her own music accompanied the film La passion de Jeanne d’Arc (the Danish director Carl Theodor Dreyer’s portrait of Jeanne d’Arc that dates from 1928). When Henie Onstad Art Centre approached Hval in 2011 to commission a site-specific sound installation, she decided to follow the thread she had started with Øya.
25 minutes long, the light design was created by Kyrre Heldal Karlsen, in cooperation with Jenny. During the vernissage she and Håvard Volden will perform an exclusive live version of the commissioned piece.
[Photos of Jenny by Gunhild Varvin, reproduced with the kind permission of Henie Onstad Kunstsenter]
