Rósa Ómarsdóttir

Collaborative Contaminations

How is the behaviour of water altered through different contaminations? What happens if we think of contaminations as a collaborative event?
In this performance, Rósa explores transformations that occur through the encounter of water with various materials. Using choreographic methods, she creates a dance of water, air, sound and pigment. Clean water gets contaminated and transforms into uncanny and magical landscapes. images of cell-like microcosmos, aurora borealis, a boiling terrain and vast galaxies arise and are choreographed together with live soundscapes made from water and ice.

Collaborative Contaminations is both a performance and an interactive installation. During the day visitors can interac with the reflection of the water, and then in the evening Rósa activates the installation in a sound and visual performance.

Concept, choreography and performance: Rósa Ómarsdóttir
Video, light and installation: Hákon Pálsson
Co-Production: Reykjavík Dance Festival

This work was made in the context of Akademie Schloss Solitude, Rósa's fellowship is funded by the TANZPAKT Stadt-Land-Bund with the support of the German Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media (BKM), the special program »NEUSTART KULTUR« (BKM) and the State Capital of Stuttgart.

Performances and Installations:
March 20th 2021 - Video performance @ Magical Cohabitations: Online event
September 9th 2021 - Installation and Performance @ Mengi Reykjavík Iceland
September 10th 2021 - Installation and Performance @ Mengi Reykjavík Iceland
September 11th 2021 - Installation and Performance @ Mengi Reykjavík Iceland
October 8th - 31 2021 - Installation @ INTERVENTIONEN II - Freie Tanz- und Theaterszene Stuttgart
October 8th 2021 - Performance @ INTERVENTIONEN II - Freie Tanz- und Theaterszene Stuttgart
October 9th 2021 - Performance @ INTERVENTIONEN II - Freie Tanz- und Theaterszene Stuttgart
October 10th 2021 - Performance @ INTERVENTIONEN II - Freie Tanz- und Theaterszene Stuttgart
October 28th 2021 - Performance @ INTERVENTIONEN II - Freie Tanz- und Theaterszene Stuttgart
October 29th 2021 - Performance @ INTERVENTIONEN II - Freie Tanz- und Theaterszene Stuttgart
October 30th 2021 - Performance @ INTERVENTIONEN II - Freie Tanz- und Theaterszene Stuttgart
October 31st 2021 - Performance @ INTERVENTIONEN II - Freie Tanz- und Theaterszene Stuttgart
April 23rd 2022 - Installation and performance @ Spring Fever Elzenhof, Brussels Belgium
July 11 2022 - Installation and performance @ Flemish Parliament Brussels
August 28 2022 - Performance @ Hamraborg Festival, Reykjavík Iceland
November 19 2022 - Performance @ City Hall’s Car Garrage, Reykjavík Dancefestival
May 6th 2023 - Performance @ Svavarssafn, Höfn, Iceland